Re: translated menus with Xft/fontconfig?
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Obviously, using XftDrawStringUtf8 will fail if the text
isn't in
> UTF-8. While nothing prevents you from specifying menu labels in UTF-8
> regardless of the locale's encoding, editing the app-defaults file is
> likely to be a pain if it contains text in multiple encodings.
There's no locale to worry about; this is a multilingualized, not an
internationalized, feature. Another way to look at it is that this is
internal XEmacs data, and is in whatever encoding is convenient for
loading as a resource, just as a C file would be. IMO, that's X
Compound Text for the legacy XFontSet approach to multilingualization,
and UTF-8 for Xft.
Mike FABIAN wrote:
The easiest (and in my opinion nicest as well) way to fix this would
be
to use Xutf8DrawString() and friends for the non-Xft case and make the
app-defaults files always UTF-8 encoded.
w.r.t. both comments: so menu labels aren't intended to be
customisable via ~/.Xdefaults or ~/app-defaults/Emacs?
If they are, then requiring the labels to be in UTF-8 means that that
~/.Xdefaults (etc) must be in UTF-8, so either the user has to deal
with multiple encodings in that file, or any other applications
customised via that file must use UTF-8, which essentially means that
the user must use a UTF-8 locale.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn(a)gclements.plus.com>
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