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Chapter 13

Examples of I18N

Programmers who have internationalized softwares, have written a patch of L10N, and so on are

encouraged to contribute to this chapter.

13.1 TWM   usage of XFontSet instead of XFontStruct

The author of this section is Tomohiro KUBOTA (

).

13.1.1 Introduction

TWM is Tabbed (or Tom's) Window Manager, one of the most well known window managers in

the world. It is included in the XFree86 distribution. Since it was not internationalized, I wrote

a patch for TWM included in XFree86 version 4.0.1. The patch was adopted in XFree86 version

4.0.1d.

Note: a bug is found for

I18N_FetchName()

and

I18N_GetIconName()

of my patch. The bug

is fixed since XFree86 version 4.1.0. This document is also fixed.

The contents of the internationalization are:

  Usage of

XFontSet

 related functions instead of

XFontStruct

, so that font handling will

be locale sensible. This is the main part of the patch.

  Addition of automatic font guessing mechanism (the simplest version). This avoids lack of

font caused by ISO8859 1 based font specification in configuration files.

  Usage of

XGetWMName()

and

XmbTextPropertyToTextList()

instead of

XFetchName()

,

so that Compound Text can be used for inter client communication of window title names.