[ icewm-Bugs-963110 ] i18n problem in menu entries

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Bugs item #963110, was opened at 2004-05-30 14:25
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Category: icewm-1.2
Group: appearance
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Egmont Koblinger (egmont)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: i18n problem in menu entries

Initial Comment:
I try to use UTF-8 at more and more places on my system.
As a small step of this game, I tested how icewm 1.2.14
handles UTF-8 menu entries if LANG is set to hu_HU.UTF-8
or similar. So I converted my Hungarian accented menu file
from latin2 to UTF-8 and started icewm with
LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 (note: no LC_* variables set, and my
glibc does support UTF-8 locales. I use Xft engine with icewm).

At the first glance everything was perfect, all the hungarian
accented characters (e.g. u with double acute, U+0171)
appeared perfectly.

But then I started icewm with LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 using the
same menu file. And suddenly those accented letters that are
not included in Latin-1 were simply missing.

Strange, but it's not true the opposite way: if a menu entry
contains an accented French letter (e.g. "e" with acute grave,
U+00E8) I do see it perfectly with hu_HU.UTF-8.

When using UTF-8 I expect every character to be displayed
correcty, no matter which language I use. So e.g. Hungarian
letters should show up correctly even for French users of the
system. AFAIK Xft doesn't have problems here, it has perfect
UTF-8 support.

(Furthermore it'd be a nice gesture to include an option that tells
icewm to interpret the menu files in UTF-8 no matter what the
locale is. It's not a problem to maintain a menu file which is
encoded in UTF-8, but due to some old-fashioned programs
I'm afraid it'll take some years till I can permanently switch from
LANG=hu_HU to LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8.)

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