Re: [gtk-list] Re: Text widget problems.

[henrik studentit hv se]

On 24 Feb, Owen Taylor wrote:

> In the long term, yes. One of my goals for GTK 2.0 is to make it
> work internally with Unicode, and to properly internationalize all
> the widgets.

Sounds very nice, what are the timetables here, I havent been on this
list long enough to get a grasp on when GTK 1.0 is going to be released
and what is going to happen after that ...

> Short term, maybe, maybe not. It would be quite easy to modify the
> Text widget to allow Swedish (etc.) characters to be
> entered. Unfortunately, that change would also make it possible to
> enter characters from the Asian CJK languages. 

Please make these changes :) I need it :)

> While that may sound good, the problem is that the text widget has the
> implicit assumption that one byte = one character, and the CJK
> languages use variable width encodings. So, the result would be
> display corruption, and possibly data corruption or core dumps.

So its not possible to limit the damages of such changes to just allow
latin1 characters?

/Henrik

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