[Tuxpaint-devel] [Fwd: Re: #308194: tuxpaint: cannot type in russian]

[Ben A. <sy...@sa...>]

I think this will help.

Ben

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Alexandra N. Kossovsky <sa...@sa...>
> To: Ben Armstrong <sy...@sa...>
> Cc: deb...@li..., 30...@bu...
> Subject: Re: #308194: tuxpaint: cannot type in russian
> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:15:31 +0300
> 
> Tuxpaint does not support Unicode at all. Some Americans think that
> supporting unicode is supporting Latin-1 mapping to unicode. Such "unicode
> support" does not work for Russians, Greeks and many other people. :-(
> 
> In tuxpaint.c, there is following code which is not unicode-ready:
> 1.
> isprint(key_unicode): you should use iswprint() for wide chars.
> 2.
> static char texttool_str[256];
> ....
> texttool_str[texttool_len++] = key_unicode;
> key_unicode may be more than 1 byte long, so it does not work.
> 
> I'm afraid I can't help with a patch.
> Thank you for the program!
>