Re: Cairo support

["Andrew E. Makeev" <andrew solvo ru>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> > They just don't support all features that we need: standard menu
> > localization, like text-entry popup menu (problem with
> > gtkimmodules), 
>
> Could you be more specific here? Is the gtk.immodules file broken in
> some win32 package on ftp.gtk.org?
>
>  
patch (reversed, heh):

--- gtk/gtkimmulticontext.c	Mon Apr 24 09:56:30 2006
+++ gtk/gtkimmulticontext.c.orig	Sun Mar 20 06:13:15 2005
@@ -521,8 +521,8 @@
      if (contexts[i]->domain && contexts[i]->domain_dirname &&
	  contexts[i]->domain[0] && contexts[i]->domain_dirname[0])
	{
-	  if (strcmp (contexts[i]->domain, GETTEXT_PACKAGE) == 0) /* &&
-	      strcmp (contexts[i]->domain_dirname, GTK_LOCALEDIR) == 0) */
+	  if (strcmp (contexts[i]->domain, GETTEXT_PACKAGE) == 0 &&
+	      strcmp (contexts[i]->domain_dirname, GTK_LOCALEDIR) == 0)
	    /* Input method may have a name in the GTK+ message catalog */
	    translated_name = _(contexts[i]->context_name);
	  else

if we didn't comment this string:

strcmp (contexts[i]->domain_dirname, GTK_LOCALEDIR) == 0)

after text-entry popup menu opened once, locale was switched back to en 
(C), and we were seeing menu item captions in english instead of russian 
(Win32 only).

> > and dynamic locale switching for gettext (not all symbols
> > exported).
>
> Something lacking in my build of gettext you mean? Should I provide a
> newer version of gettext?
>
>  
Symbol need to be exported for libintl.dll: _nl_msg_cat_cntr
That symbol is used to dynamically switching locale, like that:

setlocale( LANG, "xx" );
_nl_msg_cat_cntr++;

to allow gettext library switch domain (path to *.mo files).

-andrew