Re: [gtk-list] Re: widechar support

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer cs nmsu edu>]

phil@bolthole.com writes:

   [ Ionutz Borcoman writes ]
   >...
   > I can display mixed Japanese and Romaji text using a fontset and setting
   > the locale correspondingly. If you have a glibc 2.1 system, then it is
   > even better. For the glibc 2.0, the only way I can set the locale is by
   > using the environment variables. This makes me unable to change locales
   > after program has been started. With glibc 2.1 I can set locale with the
   > setlocale functions. Haven't yet try, but I suppose I can now change the
   > locale on the fly, during run-time.

   Forgot to mention:

   "GTK" is supposed to be a *UNIX* toolkit, not a linux toolkit. So a 'solution'
   that involves hacky things in glibc, is not a solution in my opinion.

Glibc is a Posix-compliant C library, not a Linux C library.
Presumably, setlocale is posix compliant, so this is not doing a hacky
thing in glibc.
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