Re: [Gaim-devel] UTF8 patch

[Luke S. <lsc...@gm...>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:33:46PM +0200, David Odin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:17:08AM -0500, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> > Cyril Bellot spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > > I have had problems in the current CVS release with UTF8 handle of  gtk2
> > > in entry area and gtkimhtml area  causing  bad  interpretations  of  non
> > > ascii characters.
> > 
> > Yes.  This is a known issue, and one that will be going away soon.
> > The problem is that our display widget has moved to UTF-8, but the
> > input widget remains locale-specific.
> > 
> > > So here is a patch from  David Odin fixing it.
> > > This workaround is probably in progress but the patch may help
> > 
> > Please just be patient with us ...  This patch does temporarily solve
> > the problem in some places, but we are working on the Right Fix.  :-)
> > It shouldn't be long now.
> > 
>   I'm also working on the Right Fix which, imho, is to use the gtk2
> widgets (gtktextview/gtktextbuffer). I've already done some of the work
> to replace the GtkText edit zone by a GtkTextView. It works well for
> basic editing (I've still to port many of the features the old c->entry)
> has.

yes, using gtk2 widgets is the right fix. no i do not know how close
sean/rob/whoever is to this, so i can't advise you to continue working or
be patient.
luke

>  
>   Tell me if you're interested or if I should just give up and be
> patient. I have a pretty good knowledge of gtk, so I guess I can help.
> 
>      Regards,
> 
>            DindinX
> 
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