At 1:39 Uhr +0900 28.01.2002, Masanori Sekino wrote: >Hi all, > >When I upgraded xfree86 pacages to 4.2, most X applications >can't display japanese text. > >XFree86 4.2 has changed it's default to support XLocale. >With XLocale, X applications can use locale even if system does >not support locale. But those applications must be re-compiled >with new X, because X applications builded without XLocale are >incompatible with XLocale. > >There are two ways to solve it. One is disabling XLocale >in xfree86 package and another is fixing each package to work >with XLocale. > >First one seems easy, but we can't disable XLocale of system-xfree86. >Second one seems difficult, but as long as gtk/gnome applications, >only gtk+ package seems to need modification and rebuiding, other package >using gtk+ doesn't need rebuilding.
Is a simple recompile sufficient? >Yes, I know the third way. Apple support locale in libc. But it seems >hopeless for a while because there are no changes in either locale code >in Darwin CVS or Darwin bug report(#2752682) for a long time. :P I think it is very very low priority for them, sadly. Cheers, Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
