[Xlibs] locale support

Keith Packard keithp@keithp.com
Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:30:41 -0800


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.

-keith