[gtk-list] Re: gtk with zh_TW.Big5

["Harry Chou" <harry888 alumni nctu edu tw>]

The locale support of GTK+ libs is great. We must thanks those good guys who
wrote it.
After days' testing on the GNOME enviroment, I found some problems that
might not caused by the GTK+.

Setting the gtkrc file to use compound text(iso8859+Big5) is OK for all of
Gtkwidgets. But not all GNOME made widgets.

For example,
When we use gless to view a chinese-Big5 coded document, that is fine, if we
set proper context widget "style" settings in rc files.
But when we use gEdit or gXedit, they made me confused with how to set the
fonts. There is a Font Picker dialog, but it seems that you can pick one
font at a time only.

Another one is the gmc, you can see the correct chinese file name in "Brief"
mode, but not in the "Icons" mode. I guess this is the "Icons" mode widget
problems.

Maybe some self-made widgets in GNOME should pay more attentions to the
locale issue.

By the way, I watch the [gtk-list] and [gnome-list] for some time, I should
say, Owen is really a good friend of asian people.

Harry Chou (Taiwan)

>On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 12:55:52AM +0800, Owen Taylor wrote:
>> I'm not sure what the best way of working around the problem
>> is. For Japanese and Korean locales, there are some established
>> packages that work around the deficiency, but I don't know
>> if there are equivalent packages for the Chinese locales.
>
> for zh_TW.Big5 locale, please try:
>
> ftp://ftp.linux.org.tw/pub/CLE/CLE/CLE-v0.7p1/i386/
> libwcsmbs-0.0.5-2.i386.rpm
> wcsmbs-locale-0.4.7-7.i386.rpm
>
> More details:
>
> http://cle.linux.org.tw/CLE/
> http://cle.linux.org.tw/CLE/e_index.shtml  (English)
>
>> glibc-2.1 (now appearing in various Liunux distributions) improves
>> the situation a bit - in that it can handle 16-bit
>> character sets. It still doesn't include the necessary
>> locale files (and can't really handle the correct locale
>> definitions), but the hacks to get glibc-2.1 working with
>> 16-bit locales are simpler than those for glibc-2.0.
>
> I have made the zh_TW.Big5 localedata for glibc-2.1,
> drop me a line if you want it.
>
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