On 4 Apr 2001, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> DG> What is the best "way" to display unicode charatcers on an intel
> DG> platform running redhat Linux???
> One possible answer is that you need to use version 2.2 or later of
> the C library, version 4.0.3 or later of the XFree86 libraries and
> fonts, and run in a UTF-8 locale. Properly internationalised
> applications should then be able to do some primitive processing of
> Unicode text.
If what he asked for is only 'display' of Unicode, I think
locale-dependent approach is not so attractive as locale-free approach.
For instance, if Netscape had adopted 'locale-dependent' approach in
Netscape 3.x/4.x for rendering of web pages, most East Asian users of
Linux and FreeBSD (where multibyte locale support were only recently
introduced) would not have been able to view web pages in their native
languages
> The other answer is that a number of recent applications use Unicode
> internally in all locales, and only use the locale's encoding on I/O.
> A suitable forum for this sort of discussion is the XFree86 i18n list,
> which you should feel welcome to join.
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
Certainly, this is one of a few forums where he can find a lot of
feedbacks. However, I'm wondering if X11 is only and best way to
display Unicode texts especially because he's looking for a solution
for embedded devices.
Jungshik Shin
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