Re: [nedit-develop] Fwd: Re: Status of UTF support in NEdit?

[Scott T. <sc...@tr...>]

There's a couple of downsides...

One is conditionalizing it so that it doesn't break for builds that 
don't have that version of OpenMotif. Not that I'm a fan, but one very 
good thing about nedit is that you can pick it up and build it on a 
solaris or irix box without having to go get GTK or build motif yourself 
(which might be impossible).

Porting to GTK would be nice, but then it means it only works on systems 
with gtk. If I invested the effort, I'd actually port to something like 
wxWidgets.


On 01/30/2017 07:32 AM, Chris Sorenson wrote:
> The latest release of OpenMotif has (supposedly) full
> support for UTF8, but coding nedit to make use of it would
> be a ton of work. Porting nedit to GTK might make more sense
> but would be an even larger task, and, as Mark Edel said in
> in his famous nedit slashdot interview 15 years ago, he
> didn't think it was worth the effort. That said, the FSF
> ported emacs to GTK, so who knows...
>