NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/windows/x/motif/8911

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From: [e-mail] (Tom McFarland)
Subject: Re: Japanese characters for XmLabel
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Keywords: Japan, Label, String
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Pierre Ficheux) writes:
|> In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Randolph Bertin) writes:
|> >
|> > How can I display Japanese characters on an XmLabel (PushButton, etc)
|> > widget?  Ideally, I would like to be able to set up a Japanese version
|> > of the resource file containing all of the label strings.
|> >
|>
|>     No problem. You just have to put the ascii string corresponding to the
|> kanji character 16 bits code ==> example with the k14 font :
|>
|>     *fontList: k14
|>     *label1*labelString:    0!
|>
|>     It will display the first kanji charactere of the k14 font (code 0x3021 =>
|> string 0!).

Actually, this is a function of vendor and release of Motif.  As of Motif 1.2,
all that should be necessary is to specify the string in the codeset of the
locale (i.e. type it into the defaults file using a japanese term emulator
and an internationalized editor).  For example, on HP systems I would launch
an hpterm with LANG=japanese (or LANG=japanese.euc if I wanted EUC instead of
shift-JIS encoding) and a japanese font selected.  Then I would vi the resource
file and type in a shift-JIS (or EUC) string of mixed ASCII, 8-bit Katakana
and 16-bit/24-bit Kanji.  Then when launching the application, all that is
necessary is to make sure the application's LANG is set appropriately and
that a fontset is specified in the applications font list.

For pre-1.2, each vendor provided his/her own solution.  In HP's case,
the situation is pretty much as described above, except the concept of
fontsets didn't exist.  Instead, it was necessary to specify a Japanese
font (such as jpn.8x18 or jpn.12x24).  Vendors that did not internationalize
their Xlib or their Xt would have to resort to the work around described
by Randolph above.

|>  ._______________________________.__________________________.
|> +-------------------------------'--------------------------'|
|> | Pierre FICHEUX                | tel   : [phone]  ||
|> | Lectra Systemes               | fax   : [phone]  ||
|> | ZI Marticot 33610 CESTAS      | E-mail: [e-mail] ||
|> | FRANCE                        |                    ||
|> `-------------------------------^--------------------------'
|> Comment ? (Beethoven)

Tom McFarland
Hewlett-Packard, Co.
R&D Motif team
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