[SCIM] BUG: locale dependency of SCIM's gtk2-immodule

David Oftedal david at start.no
Sat Jun 26 03:09:50 PDT 2004


>   Using IMEngines which do not support EUC-JP encoding in gtk2 apps
> under ja_JP.eucJP locale makes no sense, because the client can not
> store the content into file, even it uses UTF-8 as internal encoding.

This is certainly incorrect. GTK+ 2 apps can store UTF-8 data into a 
file in any locale. X-Chat, for instance, uses UTF-8 no matter what the 
users chooses for the rest of the system. Only by changing some options 
can another encoding be used.

-David O.



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