In Motif 1.2 Sun was the only vendor that did this to strings. It appears that
the 2.x releases picked this up somewhere along the line. At one point I even
found where Sun admitted that they changed this behaviour, and no one else had
it.
On 30-Aug-01 at 08:33, jostle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Thanks Dr.,
> I have tested the Motif behaviour with OpenMotif 2.1.theICSversion on
> Linux (RH 6.2 and 7.0) and the 1.2 and 2.? supplied by Sun for Solaris 8
> /Sparc with the same results.
> The question is; what is the definitive specification for the behaviour
> of XmStringCreateLocalized (or, for that matter, the rest of Motif)?
>
> An answer would be good but, not necessarily, unexpected,
>
> jostle
>
>
> "Dr. Jon. A. Christopher" wrote:
> >
> > We've seen this several times before, and as it turns out, even different
> > implementations of OSF/Motif handle it differently.
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> ...
> > >>Comment By: John Lemcke (jostle)
> > >Date: 2001-08-29 04:35
> > >
> > >Message:
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> > >
> > >I did a little more testing on this and it seems that the
> > >difference is actually in the behaviour of
> > >XmStringCreateLocalized. I have included a small test
> > >program below.
> > >I guess the real problem is whether to follow the Motif
> > >implementation or the documentation (which is not all that
> > >clear).
> > >Is there a definitive specification document anywhere?
> ...
> >
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