Re: Does anyone know X and utf-8? Help us with ui i18n prob.

[Wang Diancheng <dianchengwang gmail com>]

>>>>> Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de> writes:

    > Am Montag, den 24.08.2009, 23:12 +0800 schrieb Wang Diancheng:
    >> >>>>> Timo Korvola <tkorvola gmail com> writes:
    >> 
    >> > It seems to me that the problem is with print representations
    >> of > non- ascii strings.  That would be a pure rep problem,
    >> nothing to > do with X property handling or even Sawfish.  It is
    >> just that > print representations don't read back right.  Try to
    >> eval a > non-ascii string in rep and see how the printed return
    >> value > looks. Note that princ or format %s of the string works
    >> but format > %S does not.  Setting print-escape to nil would seem
    >> to help, but > the string escaping should really be fixed.
    >> 
    >> > -- Timo Korvola <URL:http://www.iki.fi/tkorvola>
    >> 
    >> 
    >> It is indeed, following is a simple patch to fix the utf-8
    >> related bug. Note that this patch only keep it compatible with
    >> utf-8 charset, I don't known other charsets' status. I think it
    >> is better remove 'Escape all control codes' (print-escape value)
    >> completely.
    >> 
    >> 

    > Great. It's working now, also when browsing a CJK site, it shows the
    > same "boxes" in the titlebar than the browser (normally set to de,
    > no CJK stuff available). previously it showed up \(163* blah or
    > something similar, right? So are the CJK issues gone, too?

I think it should be fixed if it is caused by 'print-escape' issue. And
now sawfish-client can also output utf-8 string correctly.

    > This means I can finally intltoolize sawfish (no need for this,
    > but else the gnome-translation team won't translate for us).

    > Chris