Re: [XForms] How to proceed?

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

Hi Serge.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 04:06:21PM -0400, Serge Bromow wrote:
> Indeed adding the;
> 
> #if ! FL_ENABLE_XFT
>     setenv( "LC_CTYPE", "invalid", 1 );
> #endif
> 
> is a small task for those who prefer to use the built in X11 fonts

Just to clarify: setting "LC_CTYPE" to something invalid only
suppresses use of UTF-8, making the library treat all strings
as consisting of single-byte characters and using the most basic
(and probably fastest) string drawing routines, but doesn't make
it use X11 bitmap fonts. (The latter can only be achieved by run-
ning 'configure' with the '--disable-xft' option before compi-
ling the library, in which case the macro 'FL_ENABLE_XFT' is
defined to 0.)

As long as you also supply the XForms library, which you
build with '--disable-xft', there shouldn't be a problem,
but people that don't have control about the library used
with their programs have some reason for being concerned.

                          Best regards, Jens
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