MH> I'm currently wrestling with handling UTF-8 text output.
Please consider switching to the Xft library.
MH> Creating a fontset and using 'Xutf8DrawString' to display a string with
MH> Western and Japanese Katakana works for me.
Good.
MH> o What is the current status of the utf8 functions?
They are part of XFree86 since 4.1, and are reliable since 4.2.
MH> o Are the UTF-8 functions available in a separate library for non-XFree86
MH> systems?
I do not think so. As they delve quite deeply into Xlib internals,
building such a library might be a lot of work.
MH> (Are they, for example, related to a library named 'Xutf8' which
MH> could be used as a fallback?)
Reference?
MH> o Why does [XmbDrawString] fail to display the Katakana when
MH> Xutf8DrawString succeeds, which seems to indicate that my fontset
MH> is correct?
Don't know.
Please let us know when you find out.
MH> o Does it fail because I need to update something? I.e. files in
MH> '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8'? I'm currently using the
MH> XFree86 projects pre-compiled binaries of XFree86-4.3.0.
Which does include JISX0201.1976-0:GR in en_US.UTF-8. Sorry, can't help you.
MH> o 'XOpenIM(display, NULL, NULL, NULL)' fails for LANG=en_US.UTF-8.
Yep. That's expected brain-damage, IMs are locale-specific.
Juliusz
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