One other thing WRT Linux: In a previous patch I had disabled building for any locale other than C for linux systems.
With this branch, all locales are built by default again on Linux. so a 'make World' should suffice to build everything again. This will continue to be the case when this branch is eventually merged into master. Just FYI. -jon On 1/2/19 2:19 PM, Jon Trulson wrote: > Hello and Happy New Year! > > I have pushed a new branch called 'utf8-conversion' to the CDE repo. I > probably should have pushed it some time ago but have been rather busy, > sorry about that. > > The current utf8-conversion branch does work on both Linux and FreeBSD 11. > > It uses the UTF-8 encoding for all messages, catalogs, and the like. > > For documentation (help, dtinfo, and man) the encoding is still > ISO8859-1 due to our ancient docbook code base. So, while message > catalogs and the like are built with utf8 encoding now, all > documentation is still built with iso8859. > > For this reason, using help while in a utf-8 locale (say, de_DE.UTF-8) > will show some character encoding errors. > > Until we can convert the docs to a more modern docbook (XML/UTF8) this > will just have to do. > > There is still some work to do regarding fonts. > > The current fonts.alias file needs to be replaced with something sane, > and preferably using ISO10646 encoding (UTF8). These fonts are already > available in a standard X11 installation (the ISO8859-*) fonts are > actually built from these. > > There are probably other things to be tweaked, so please feel free to > check out the utf8-conversion branch and let us (the ML) know how it > goes. As usual, patches are welcome. > > I have done nothing with the nsgmls stuff we currently build. I'd > prefer to wait on that until work on the documentation happens - there's > really not much point otherwise. > > dtlogin, and it's option for selecting a language probably needs to be > looked at as well -- I have done nothing with dtlogin. There are > probably other minor issues that need fixing too - hence, a new branch > to test and fix before merging into master. :) > > -- Jon Trulson "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -- 1984 _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
