> How deeply needed is the setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""); in fl_open_display() > in Fl_x.cxx? > > I was checking how well Dillo worked with LC_CTYPE=tr_TR > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I ), > and the answer was "not all that wonderfully" thanks to the > various strcasecmp()s we have strewn about. > > FLTK itself does not have as many strcasecmp()s, but > a quick little way to get it to misbehave is to put a > "<i>italic</i>" in test/unittest_about.cxx. > Under tr_TR, it won't italicize.
Hmm, I didn't even know we had that... Well, there you go. My gut reaction (based on absolutely no testing whatsoever!) is that we shouldn't need that... But maybe we do. Or... Hmm, yes, maybe we should do that, though... I wonder... Was it added to aid IM support, does anybody know? Or as part of the UTF8 conversion perhaps? Blimey - fl_open_display() is *old*; checked in by Mike at r2! The setlocale stuff was added at r6212, so I'd guess it was tied in with the UTF8 work... Hmm, setting LC_CTYPE to be explicitly "" seems like it *would* be the Right Thing To Do, when I think about it - that basically means (as I understand it, I may be wrong!) that we are telling the CTYPE settings to use the "native" values set in the environment variables, rather than just defaulting to the "C" environment, and I guess for a UTF8 capable program that would *seem* like a reasonable thing to do? We want the conversions and comparisons set for the native language rather than the default "C" ones, I guess. Or... Maybe rather than setting the environment to tr_TR you should try setting tr_UTF8 (or whatever the syntax is, I never remember) and see if that plays out nicer, given that fltk will now be *trying* to work with UTF8 encoded strings rather than tr_TR "codepage" style stuff? Or am I talking nonsense again? SELEX Galileo Ltd Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS14 3EL A company registered in England & Wales. Company no. 02426132 ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
