Re: X input methods for utf-8?

[Bram Moolenaar <Bram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruno Haible wrote:

> Bram Moolenaar writes:
> 
> > The information I gathered so far is that there is no UTF-8
> > locale available for X-windows.  At least not for most people on
> > existing systems.
> 
> UTF-8 locales are supported in XFree86 4.0.2 (with glibc 2.2), and
> also in Solaris 8. Not all toolkits built on X11 support this locale
> yet, however: Xaw only if you explicitly set the "international"
> resource to true, Motif dumps core, ...

Not many people are using XFree86 4.0.2 (yet).  But it's good to know it's
there, in a few years it will be wide spread.

> > A better solution would be that the locale is set to UTF-8.  The
> > X-windows functions should then automatically translate the compound
> > string to UTF-8.
> 
> They do it for all functions whose name starts with "Xmb". But in the
> XIM callback functions which you install you still get unconverted
> text.

I just ran into this.  Hopefully somebody who knows about how the XIM works
can have a look into this.  We probably need to add conversion in a few
places.  The code in Vim that handles it is unfortunately not very well
commented.

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