Re: UTF-8 locale

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"Tomas Frydrych" <tomas frydrych uklinux net> writes:

> Could anyone tell me whether the the GDK library supports UTF-8 
> locales? I am trying to use UTF-8 locale with AbiWord, which relies 
> on GDK for processing keyboard messages from X, but for any 
> characters that require multybyte UTF-8 code, the GDK library 
> used by AbiWord returns an empty string. Is this because UTF-8 
> locales are not supported by GDK, or is it likely that the problem is 
> somewhere else?
> (I use XFree86 4.0.2 and glibc 2.2, so that the locale itself is 
> working).

GTK+-1.2 supports UTF-8 locales, but only if Xlib supports UTF-8
locales. The XFree86 4.0.2 libc does not. [ Yes, xterm does,
but I'm talking about the neccesary XIM / XOM support ]

(Though I'd expect support for UTF-8 locales to be integrated into
XFree86 fairly soon.)

Regards,
                                        Owen