On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:45:40AM +0100, Richard Levitte via RT wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun Feb 27 10:07:31 2005]:
> > I tried to use Latin 1 characters in menus some time ago. It breaks
> > horrible without I18N
>
> Yup, that's expected the way the code currently looks. I'm asking
> again, would it hurt anyone if we made I18N a default (or even removed
> the conditions entirely and made I18N a mandatory default of sorts)?
Here on Debian unstable, with ctwm -info
Twm version: MIT X Consortium, R6, ctwm 3.6 + I18N Patch
Compile time options : XPM USEM4 SOUNDS I18N
... I18N work as much as I would expect, i.e. international characters
in menus and window-titles are displayed if the chosen font has them.
> > and ctwm just ignores the characters when I18N is defined.
>
> I assume you checked that it wasn't a font problem.
>
> I guess I should try it... :-)
When trying, keep an eye on the order in your .ctwmrc. As the
man-page says:
[...]fications: Variables, Bindings, Menus. The Variables sec-
tion must come first and is used to describe the fonts, colors,
[...]
Variable names and keywords are case-insensitive. Strings must be
surrounded by double quote characters (e.g. 'blue') and are
Why the example uses single quotes I don't know, but double quotes
work for me. I only tried iso10646-1 encoded font, e.g.
MenuFont "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-c-*-iso10646-1"
TitleFont "-efont-biwidth-bold-r-normal-*-*-160-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1"
and with that the following
menu "menu3"{
"Standard ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃ" f.title
"test ××××× ×××××" f.exec "my_prog&"
}
xterm -T "××××××××××××ÃÃÃ" -e sleep 4
does what one would think. (In a .UTF-8 locale, configuration file and
such.) Note that the I18N-support is still incomplete. For example
ctwm doesn't do bidirectional ordering (Hebrew, Arabic), and I didn't
even try combining character. Anyway, I think these things are
usually addressed at the toolkit level, so they may be beyond what the
ctwm programmers want to do.
Regarding what already works, I don't know what is in Debian's
I18N-patch, but the source code is available from the Package page
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ctwm
and probably the maintainer (is Branden Robinson on this list?) will
know more. One could also read on the page "Overview of ctwm source
package" http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/ctwm.html
Daniel
