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

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

On 18-Dec-98 Matthew J. Francis wrote:
>  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.

Just to clarify,

That comment about the escapes was referring to the case where you
have a label/whatever containing only Japanese (as it must because
they only support one font at a time...). Of course you still need
them in free text with Romaji in.

I'll shut up now. I'm confusing myself...

Cheers,
-Matt.

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