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- From: pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
- Subject: Re: Motif 1.2 Text Widgets & input methods
- Summary: Yes, it's easy
- Keywords: confused
- Message-ID: <lkjilbINN4j8@news.bbn.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 17:51:39 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.153015.350@mfltd.co.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan5.153015.350@mfltd.co.uk>, dnh@mfltd.co.uk (Des Herriott) writes:
- >
- > I've just been reading the Motif 1.2 Programmer's Guide (ch. 11, the
- > bits about internationalization and so on), and there's a lot there
- > I just don't quite grasp.
-
- Yeah, join the club.
-
- >
- > What I want to do is (as a prelude to a more complex project) just create
- > a Text widget which allows Japanese input...
-
- The manuals bite. What we found here is that on the HP platform (using
- the beta-version of OS version 9) is that a dead-standard program will
- "just work" providing that you link to the HP X library. You also need to
- start the workstation in Japanese mode and be sure that the LANG env. var.
- is set to "japanese". YMMV on other platforms....
-
- We've had trouble getting this to work in production code
-
- BTW -- Japanese is really not that hard to learn if you try. Most tech
- manuals are liberally spinkled with Katakana, which is just a phonetic
- transliteration of the corresponding English work. I've been using
- "Beginning Japanese" and think its pretty good.
-
- Did I mention that the manuals bite?
-
-
- Peter D. Smith
-