Re: Please avoid using Xutf8* API.

[Hideki Hiura]

> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
> Right, but since we currently do not support UTF-8 fully, we cannot
> rely on it.  We have to use the "orig" locale and only revert to
> UTF-8 when the orig locale failed.

How about something mixture of both approach then?

      orig_locale = SetLocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL);
      utf8_locale = get_utf_8_codeset_locale_name(orig);
      orig_xim = XOpenIM (dpyinfo->display, dpyinfo->xrdb,
                     resource_name, EMACS_CLASS);
      orig_xic = XCreateIC(orig_xim, .....);
      setlocale(LC_CTYPE, utf8_locale);
      utf8_xim = XOpenIM (dpyinfo->display, dpyinfo->xrdb,
                     resource_name, EMACS_CLASS);
      utf8_xic = XCreateIC(utf8_xim, .....);
      setlocale(LC_CTYPE, orig_locale);

      
      XmbLookupString(orig_xic...)
      if (status_return == XLookupKeySym) {
          ;; Try again with xic created on UTF-8 locale
          setlocale(LC_CTYPE, utf8_locale); just in case for XLC function
          XmbLookupString(utf8_xic...)
          setlocale(LC_CTYPE, orig_locale);

I have not verified this code would work with current implementation.

Or if the short term goal is to convert KeySym of Euro sign to the
Euro sign string, or something like such level(means that the case XIM
server does not get involved with), there may be an alternative.

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