[Xlibs] locale support

[Jim Gettys]

I dunno the exact differences.  I do know that Xlib has over 1/4
megabyte of Unicode conversion table that is essentially duplicating
what is in a modern libc.
                                - Jim

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 12:30, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 11 o'clock on Nov 18, Warren Turkal wrote:
> 
> > What is the difference in X11 locale support and libc locale support? Is
> > there any way to combine these to a single code base?
> 
> I think the X11 locale support has a few features not in the libc locale 
> support. The X11 locale support was originally designed to support systems 
> without native locale support; obviously that is a small enough minority 
> to ignore at this point.
> 
> It would be great it someone would go explore what features X11 locales 
> have that libc locales do not, and then we can figure out how to get rid 
> of the X11 locale database.  Duplicating system functionality is a 
> terrible plan.

-- 
Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys@hp.com>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory