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Re: X input methods for utf-8?

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Subject: Re: X input methods for utf-8?
From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:39:38 +0000
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Harald Alvestrand wrote on 2001-01-31 07:08 UTC:
> is the input received in the locale of the X server or of the X application?

The X server knows absolutely nothing about locales. It just transmits
byte strings to/from/between applications, which let their respective
Xlib incarnations do locale-dependent things with them. The X11 protocol
is much simpler than the X11 C API.

Markus

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