Submitted by Steven_Young on Wed, 08/07/2002 - 17:32. General Questions
Hi
My system keywords aregentoo Linux 1.2,XFee86-4.2.0,OpenMotif-2.1.30
I love OpenMotif very much,but it is pity that the title bar can`t display Simplified Chinese correctly-(
Any one can help me?
Thanks!
Hmmm,
I hear you might want CDE for that. You can get a cheap copy here or there.
Basically its kinda like Gnome (cough).
mwm has the "$HOME/dt/$LANG/.mwmrc" thing going. CDE has it all laid out for you already. What a great place to start.
Hope that helps!
John Hendrickson
Oh - oops - doesn`t display correctly.
Sounds like a xfs setup problem. But you really need to be more specific about what you see if you want an answer.
You must remember that OpenMotif is free and isn`t fully Motif. As such, and giving that you are not a proffesional global distributor, that your system might not be correctly configured for mixing multinational fonts in places where locale fonts are expected.
xfs supplies fonts and can be blamed when they do not render correctly. mwm relies on that subsystem. mwm itself doesn`t do any rendering.
Certainly, X windows can do any font - 2 or 3 space.
I find on my system some applications show chinese (for example, xfontsel and word processors) and some will not (for example, rxvt). However I`m sure rxvt doesn`t display these correctly because my system isn`t fully configured - not because rxvt can`t do it.
I think my probem is that I used "C" or some ISO locale - I don`t know - I really just glossed over that.
I`m not an "expert" in mwm`s multinational support - which it has extensively. But I do know that you might not have, in some way, properly set up your system.
So how exactly are they displayed incorrectly?
For example, are the tops clipped off the characters (that could indirectly be mwm`s fault and is a classic font question)? The strong arm has no hook? In what way do they appear incorrect?
Hope that helps,
John Hendrickson
One more thing to think about.
There`s nothing stoping anyone from using a locale character set that spans all characters and languages (a many byte character set).
The reason it isn`t done is because it would cause the system to be big and slow.
A smart system like mwm even offers a better option it can mix language systems all on the same desktop without requiring the "locale" to do the same.
Can you tell me how to write a .mwmrc file?
Thanks!