Hi,
I've just merged the utf8-conversion branch to master. This branch
converts the languages from ISO8859-1 to UTF-8. This was done for the
message catalogs, resources and other related files.
However, documentation (help, manpages, and the dtinfo guides) are still
always built using the ISO8859-1 locales.
To support UTF-8 documentation, our docbook sources and text need to be
updated to something from this century, and ideally from this decade.
In addition, a conversion to XML would also be required as a result.
So, until that happens, we still need ISO8859-1 for the docs. This also
means viewing the docs while in a utf8 locale may show anomalies as
non-utf8 8 bit sequences might not be rendered properly.
I had tried to convert the docs blindly to utf-8, which worked fine
initially, but the tools we are using crapped out all over the place,
and especially instant (used to create the help text) crashed quite
frequently. I hate instant.
So, I decided not to 'hack' it - it needs to be done correctly.
There are undoubtedly some issues with this conversion - for example
dtterm does not handle UTF-8 sequences properly where 2 or more
characters are supposed to be drawn in the same cell (overlay ed) for
example. As always, patches welcome.
A choice of good ISO10646 X11 fonts also needs to be selected. Ideally
fonts that look decent and have a good coverage of the utf-8 character
space and will work properly with CDE's rather awkward font configurator.
It would be good to explore XFT on CDE too, as this can help - it can
select glyphs from other fonts if a font you are using does not support
a glyph, for example. Plus all that anti-aliasing goodness, and the
generally better quality and completeness of TTF fonts.
But, if anyone has suggestions for good fontsets we can configure CDE
with (via cde's fonts.alias files), let us know.
Since at least linux and the BSD's are using essentially the same X11
environment and software, we should be able to come up with something
that will work for most users out of the box.
--
Jon Trulson
"Entropy. It isn't what it used to be."
-- Sheldon
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