Re: translated menus with Xft/fontconfig?

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > I am using the Xft support in XEmacs for a long time already > > and like a lot. > > > > But until now I always disabled it for the menus because > > I couldn’t figure out how to make it work for the translated menus. > > It doesn't work, AFAIK. That's one of the reasons I opposed putting > Xft into the mainline way back when. > > Working around it might be as easy as replacing calls to > XftDrawString8 with XftDrawStringUtf8 in lwlib/xlwmenu.c. XftDrawString8() assumes that the text is ISO-8859-1 (specifically, it treats each byte as a unicode codepoint). If you have text in some other encoding, you need to convert it to unicode yourself. 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.

Using mbstowcs() and XftDrawString32 wouldn't be much more complex, and should handle most cases, i.e. so long as wchar_t is UCS-4 and setlocale(LC_CTYPE,"") is in effect.