RE: [gtk-list] Re: gtk_label and internationalisation question

["Matthew J. Francis" <asbel dial pipex com>]

Hi,


On 18-Dec-98 Ionutz Borcoman wrote:

>  So:
>  1. can I put some Japanese text in my source code (I'm using XEmacs +
>  SKK) ? How ?

If you look at how I was doing it, you can do something like: "\x24\x22"
(hiragana "A"), where in general \xHH inserts a (hex) character HH in
a way that won't choke the compiler. You don't need the escapes, just
the raw JIS codes.


>  2. is there a simpler way to introduce Japanese text in Labels, etc ?
>  Even without locale support ? If locale support is correct set, how do I
>  do this ?

I leave this one to the experts :P


>  3. can a Label have mixed Japanese/Romaji text ? Last time I have try
>  this, I was forced to switch between fonts and therefore, the only
>  widget usable for this was the textbox. No way to do this with Labels
>:-(

There is one place in the EDICT app where this would be useful, and the
closest I came to a solution was to have several labels packed in an
hbox, split at the places where different fonts were required. I
haven't actually tried it yet, so I don't know quite how well that
would work in practise. You are right that in general a label can have
only one style...


Cheers,
-Matt.

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