Hello all.
Please excuse me if I go off-topic, but I need some help, and I was told
you all might be who can help me.
I am the maintainer of VTWM, and a few weeks ago, I implemented I18N/L10N
support, by integrating Tomohiro Kubota's work on TWM. It does seem to
work here, but I am too Anglo-centric to know how to compose non-English
VTWM resources, or set up X to support and use non-English fonts (if I
even have to?).
I have corresponded with Tomohiro, who tried to get it to work, and he
couldn't. So I'm turning to you. Here is the last reply I sent him - he
might not have even received it yet, I hope he doesn't think me rude:
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On Oct 03, at 07:27 AM, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
>
> I tried the beta version. It worked well in LANG=C locale but it
> didn't start in LANG=fr_FR or LANG=ja_JP.eucJP locales.
It doesn't really do anything with LANG=C:
loc = setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
if (!loc || !strcmp(loc, "C") || !strcmp(loc, "POSIX") ||
!XSupportsLocale())
use_fontset = False;
else
use_fontset = True;
if (PrintErrorMessages)
fprintf(stderr, "%s: I18N supported, L10N %sabled\n",
ProgramName, (use_fontset) ? "en" : "dis");
If you invoke VTWM with the "-v" switch, it will report whether I18N/L10N
is supported and enabled on /dev/stderr.
I am able to get VTWM running with L10N enabled in an X sub-session by
doing this:
$ Xnest -ac :1 &
$ LANG=es_ES.ISO8859-15 MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-15 vtwm -v -d :1 &
But as all my resources are English, I just get English VTWM features in
a different font. Same goes with a few other LANG and MM_CHARSET values,
although the fonts differ among them (the above is for Spanish).
I suspect it does work - here, anyway - because even though I get English
features, the fonts do change from those specified in my resource files,
and I don't get any "Unable to open fontsets ..." errors. But as I say, I
am too Anglo-centric to know how to compose non-English VTWM resources, or
set up X to support and use non-English fonts (if I even have to?).
> My environment is Debian Sid (unstable version).
Mine is FreeBSD 4.5-REL-p24.14 running Xfree86 4.2.0.
> After unfreezing the tarball, I just typed "xmkmf" and "make".
That should do it. Support for XPM images, regular expressions, I18N/L10N,
and m4 are enabled by default.
--->8---
If any of you would like to try this beta of VTWM, you can get it at:
ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/hawkeyd/private/vtwm-5.4.7-20030923.tar.gz
The directory is not readable; you'll have to fetch the tarball by name.
My main interest at this point is whether or not the I18N/L10N stuff
really works. What you did to set up the test (i.e., get your English X
server to support whatever languages, etc.), and resulting screenshots
would be most welcome.
All I ask is that you do not distribute this VTWM in any manner. It is
stable, but still subject to change, and I don't want to chase reports
of or about an unreleased and unsupported version.
Oh! I am not subscribed to this list, please see that I'm CC:'d directly
if you reply to the list.
Thank you,
Dave
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