home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:21032 comp.windows.x.intrinsics:747 comp.windows.x.motif:8508
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!cq377
- From: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.intrinsics,comp.windows.x.motif
- Subject: Re: Specifying text in different languages in a resource file
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 06:05:39 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- Lines: 26
- Distribution: inet
- Message-ID: <1itn3kINNhi8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1isvhpINNkqo@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1ilmsbINNcb6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu
-
-
- In a previous article, jeff@nsr.hp.com (Jeff Gruszynski) says:
-
- >>: > Is it possible to specify a character string (e.g. XmNlabelString for
- >>: >a push button) in a resource file using MOTIF 1.1.X in different languages
- >>: >(i.e. French, German, ...)? If not, what's a good way of doing it?
- >>: >NLS catalog, maybe? Does MOTIF 1.2 support it?
- >>:
- >>: Actually, if anybody can answer this, please post the answer here and/or
- >>: maybe add it to the FAQ. I'd like to know too. Especially languages
- >>: such as Chinese.
- >>:
- >
- >O'Reilly & Assoc, X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual, Motif Ed.
- >(at least for X11R4 version) in chapter 10.2.3 (The Language String)
- >mentions, among others, /usr/lib/X11/$LANG/app-defaults for language
- >specific app-defaults.
- >
- Let me be more specific. How do you specify "wide character" or
- "multibyte character" strings in a resource file? How do you edit
- it?
- --
- -Dave Williss
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Standards are great! Everybody should have one of their own!
- The opinions stated above are Mine! All Mine! You can't have them.
-