Re: Xlib UTF-8 support

[Michael B Allen <mba2000@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Two things. First, I believe Pango is becoming the defacto method for
rendering non-Latin1 text in general purpose applications (I've never
used it but from installing apps I can see more and more apps depend on
it). Second, make sure you're in the UTF-8 locale. If you're not,
UTF-8 text will not be rendered properly.

Mike

On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:17:32 +0100
"Mirco Bakker" <lister1@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> After reading the UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ I tried to programm a small X application that displays a variety of chars from different charsets. While most european charsets (e.g German äüö, French éèà) work fine, russian and asian charsets aren't displayed (or scrambeled).
> 
> The programm (written in C) uses only the standard Xlib. The writing is done using XmbDrawString() (AFAIK function of choice). I also tried Xutf8DrawString (X_HAVE_UTF8_STRING is set) with the same effect. After Googeling for hours I found a few outdated reports that Xlib has a Bug handling UTF-8 Strings (or Fonts). Is this still true or is my code crap?
> 
> TIA, Mirco
> 
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