RE: multilanguage environment

[Yen-Ju Chen]

  From my little experience,
  if you get * for every non-latin character,
  you have to set the correct encoding in your environment variable
GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING.
  And the GNUstep-base should handle it correctly.

  If you get nothing or garbage in GNUstep-gui/GNUstep-back,
  you have to check whether the font encoding in Xwindow and GNUstep is
correct.
  In my case, I use XFree86 4.1.0 and module xtt (freetype didn't work for
unknown reasons),
  my font is -big5-0, but it is actually iso10464-1 internally.
  Therefore I have to edit my fonts.dir, fonts.alias, etc
  so that GNUstep can get it right.
  I don't quite understand how Xwindow handle the encoding of font,
  therefore, only a few of my Chinese fonts work in GNUstep.
  GNUstep use font cache and I don't know how GNUstep cache the fonts.
  Therefore, I set GSFontMask = *-iso* in .GNUstepDefualts so that it won't
use the -big5-0 font.
  It is quite complicated how Xwindow handle the font encoding.
  For example, a Chinese font can be -big5-0, -iso10464-1, or -gb1xxx
encoding,
  and Xwindow can handle it via encodings.dir or other machenism depending
on xtt or freetype modules.
  I don't know how GNUstep cache the font when it meet the same font name
but different encodings.
  Therefore, I force it to cache iso* font so that only iso10464-1 encoding
will be used.
  Set the NSBoldFont, NSFont, NSUserFont, NSLabelFont, NSMenuFont, etc to
the right font name.

  That's all I did.

  Yen-Ju

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-gnustep-admin@gnu.org [mailto:discuss-gnustep-admin@gnu.org]On
Behalf Of Richard Frith-Macdonald
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 2:00 PM
To: b.gohla@gmx.de
Cc: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
Subject: Re: multilanguage environment



On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 05:22 PM, Björn Gohla wrote:

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> i am having big trouble working with non latin scripts in gnustep, is
> there
> nobody out there working with languages that use non-latin scripts?

Check the mailing list archives ... at least there is Yen-Ju Chen using
chinese.

> does
> gnustep not use unicode to encode strings internally?

Yes, it does where appropriate.  More importantly, the string handling
API
(NSString class) lets you operate with 16-bit unicode characters
irrespective
of the actual internal encoding used.

> i do have iso-10646-1
> fonts installed on my system, why can gnustep not use them?

Don't know - rather depends on what you are trying to do I guess.
What do you have your GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING set to?


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