Michael> I have an application that stores its messages in Unicode, and
Michael> I'm attempting to add an X11/Motif UI to it. If I convert a
Michael> Unicode message into a Motif XmString (using
Michael> XmStringCreateLocalized), when the XmString is displayed the
Michael> non-ASCII characters show up as garbage.
Michael> What do I need to do to have X11 display the Unicode characters
Michael> correctly? Is there some font that I need to tell it to use?
In short, it is a royal pain in the neck with Motif as it is. Version 2.1
might have some better way of handling it, but I haven't looked at it yet.
One thing you might want to try is to get one of the Unicode BDF fonts that is
available, create your XmString with UCS-2 text and a tag for the Unicode
font. I haven't actually tried this yet, so don't take my word as gospel :-)
One thing is for certain, even if that works, it won't render any script that
needs context analysis or reordering for rendering.
Perhaps a member of the OpenGroup can inform us about the progress commercial
Unix vendors are making in this area. Haven't heard much from the commercial
vendors recently, but Linux seems to be progressing much faster in this area.
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