[Xlibs] locale support

[Eric Anholt]

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 13:05, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:36, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> > 
> > >>>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
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> Does Windows have the neccessary locale info? How about OS/2?
> > >
> > >Windows might not, but Cygwin does (and that's what matters).  Don't 
> > >know about OS/2.
> > 
> > Why not implement the ability for X to use the system locale 
> > information first, and make it compile time conditionally 
> > enabled.  Default to using it on OS combinations it is known to 
> > work on, and fix problems as they arise.  There's always fallback 
> > to existing code then to handle any problems that come up.  In 
> > time, all relevant platforms will either:
> 
> Note that this capability is largely already there, and already
> used in XFree86 builds. The only thing that might be getting
> duplicated now is Unicode and code conversion tables, but replacing
> that with iconv() is not particularly easy, and definitely not
> particularly portable. (I'm not sure *BSD even have iconv() support
> yet; the names of character sets for iconv aren't at all portable
> across systems.)

There are two libiconv's available for FreeBSD (it's not part of libc),
one of which is gnu's, which gets used by just about everything.

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