Re: X11 Compound Text vs ISO 2022

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "KH" == Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

KH> iso-8859-1, ctext-with-extensions, utf-8 respectively in
KH> this order.

D'Oh.  I read COMPOUND_TEXT even though you wrote ctext. :(

KH> By the way, the spec of COMPOUND_TEXT (included in
KH> xorg-docs-1.5) lists these registered charsets.

KH> ISO8859-1 through ISO8859-9
KH> JISX0201.1976-0
KH> GB2312.1980-0
KH> JISX0208.1983-0
KH> KSC5601.1987-0

KH> but libX11-1.3.2/src/xlibi18n/lcCT.c lists many more
KH> charsets (e.g. more 8859 series and all CNS11643 series).
KH> I think it is better to follow the above spec than lcCT.c.
KH> What do you think?

The changes to the code go back many, many years, and I (as an Xorg
member) expect that the spec will be updated to match the code.

So I'd follow the Xlib code rather than the spec.

-JimC
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