From: =??Q?Thomas_Temp=E9?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Help on multilingual support for Linux > It would look much like a data repository system, with a *nix server and a > GUI client, where the client would need true multilingual support (or at > least as good a support as we can find one...) So we were looking at > Unicode, because handling separate locales for each language did not look > fesible...
One of the alternative of Unicode is to use combining ISO-2022 or etc. > There is no problem with the server, all he has to do is handle 8-bit > clean data. But the client would need to handle and display Unicode > string. As of now, we were thinking about a Windows client (the API lets > us do that). I really looked into the possibility to write a Linux client, > but I did not find any API for displaying Unicode data. > Do you know of any way we could display unicode data in a GUI environment? > I found no widget set that could do any such thing... In the case that > there is none, is it possible to use different locales to display data > from different character sets in the same window? This story maybe imply two different topics. One is about UTF-8 fonts or other codesets' fonts, and another is how to display. If you want to display unicode data, you have to get the unicode .bdf fonts. unifont.deb provides UTF-8 font data. You also get the data from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html. If you also investigate displaying many codesets without Unicode, with like ISO-2022 or so, you need to get another font data: xfonts-*.deb. The source code of xemacs (http://www.xemacs.org), lv (http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~nrt/lv), xterm with utf8 (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~rwb197/), yudit, etc..., maybe help you to display unicode data. -- GOTO Masanori Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
