Re: [Evolution] International Characters

[Heinz-Josef Claes <hjclaes web de>]

Hi Chris,
thanks for your answer.

Can you please give me a hint where to start (web adress) looking at utf8?
Unfortunately, I don't know anything about it.
And, how do I tell evolution to use a different coding?

Greetings,
Heinz-Josef


> On 2 Nov 2000, Heinz-Josef Claes wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > cause I got no response the last time, I'll try again . . .
> >
> >
> > Are there any plans to support 16 bit characters for reading and
> > writing? If we want world domination, I think it's necessary ;-).
>
> We're using unicode with a varying character size (utf8) instead of 16 bit
> characters, but this will support everything that 16 bit characters does.
>
> > By the way, 16 bit support is one of the weak things in Unix. Since 8
> > years, not to much has changed; there are only rudimentary tools for
> > reading and especially for writing. That's the reason why I to have to
> > reboot my linux box very often with windoze :-( for my wife, who is
> > chinese.
>
> So, we are doing work to support this.  We use utf8 internally for pretty
> much everything.  However, I'm not sure how strong the support for Chinese
> entry is, for example.  I would suggest trying it though.  Also, if it
> doesn't work, I would try it again with future versions.  I wouldn't be
> surprised if this improves from version to version.
>
> One of the reasons for this is the difficulty in using varying fonts and
> such in the current environment.  However, the next major version of Gtk
> is going to use unicode internally.  This will make unicode support in the
> next version of Evolution (after 1.0) much much stronger since it will use
> the facilities that Gtk provides.
>
> Good luck with this.  Write again with your experiences if you try this
> out.
>
> Thanks,
>     Chris
>
>
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