bls@texhrc.UUCP (Brian L. Sumner) (02/18/89)
The designers of X had the good sense to allow for the possibility of 16 bit fonts, but I have not seen this push for internationalization in many of the widget libraries becoming available. In particular, while `Label' is a common resource for many widgets, I have not seen any resource of type `LabelRepresentation'. Unfortunately most (not all) widgets assume a `LabelRepresentation' of type "Ascii". While this is fine for the U.S. it is not fine for other countries. Ideally, `LabelRepresentation' would be one out of "Ascii", "ISO Latin 1", "ISO Latin-Greek", "ISO Kanji", etc., and resource converters would be available for these. I understand DEC has something like this, any others?
rws@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (02/27/91)
Perhaps delaying the internationalization of X is a good idea.
Who wants potentially major modifications staring them in the face after
choosing one international character set over another.
You appear to not understand what is commonly meant by "internationalization".
The internationalization efforts I am aware of (X included) use programming
interfaces that provide codeset independence, rather than being tied to any
one codeset.