Re: Non-ASCII in Lucid menus

[Jan D.]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> >    Well, my patch does not address the issue mentioned by Dave: it can only
> >    display multilingual chars that are part of the user's locale.
> > Could it select the locale according to the characters to be displayed?
> >    
>
> The locale info is embedded somewhere in the Xt widget info (I'm not sure
> where, really), so maybe it can be done, but I don't know how.
> It's probably easier to temporarily select a utf-8 locale when creating the
> widget, so as to get the same behavior as Gtk where the menus always use
> utf-8.

The Xt widget creation code just calls the string to fontset converter 
that in turn XCreateFontSet that in turn calls XCreateOC and then 
finally somewhere there is a call to setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL).  So I 
guess the only way to to this is to set LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE in the 
environment prior to widget creation (assuming X does not cache this 
information at startup) as you suggest.

   Jan D.