Hi list, My Fl_TeacherTool project has people contributing to it by adding gettext support to provide internationalization. Here is a snip from one of the problems a volunteer developer sent me.
------snip-------- The second problem which I encountered is that FLTK doesn't support Unicode. I see on the FLTK website that Unicode support will come in the future with version 1.3. The problem is that most people now-a-days set their locale to use the UTF-8 character set, so gettext will send unicode characters to fl_teachertool. This causes all the international characters to show up as question marks or garbly-gook. I tried to write a function which would detect if using UTF-8 and switch the locale to ISO-8859-1, but many users don't have the ISO-8859-1 locale defined on their systems. Do you know how to get around this problem? I see that somebody has created a version of FLTK 1.1 with unicode support (http://www.whoow.org/people/Jean-Marc.Lienher/fltk.html) but I haven't tried installing it. -------snip------- I recall Ian had a fork with UTF-8 support. Is that still available? What are my options? BTW any idea on a rough ETA for 1.3 to get UTF-8 support? -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/ C++ GUI tutorial http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/ _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
