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From: marr@dev8n.mdcbbs.com (Jack Marr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Display of mixed ASCII/Kanji strings in X11
Keywords: kanji X11 wfgo
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.085539.1@dev8n.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 24 Sep 90 08:55:39 GMT
Organization: McDonnell Douglas M&E, Cypress CA
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    We are trying to display mixed ASCII/Kanji strings using the HP X11
    system and the fonts from the Japanese NLIO 98861A.  Our method of
    displaying these mixed strings on DECwindows and Sun's X implementation
    is to parse through the string and direct characters or sub-strings to
    XDrawImageString (ASCII) or XDrawImageString16 (Kanji) as appropriate. 
    In HP X11 this doesn't work.  In fact the only way we can get these
    strings to display is to direct them to XDrawImageString exclusively.
    Since we haven't loaded the Kanji font (j16.16x32), and the ASCII/Kana
    font (jpn.8x32) definitely doesn't contain any Kanji characters (if xfd
    is to be believed), we are a bit confused.  How is mixed ASCII/Kanji
    display supposed to work, and how can we tell that Kanji characters are
    available?

    Additional info:  I note in the example in HP-UX "A Guide to
    Internationalization of Software", on the X11 Window System (section
    8.2) that only the jpn.12x24 font is loaded, but that Kanji characters
    are displayed.  So I guess this is working as designed, but we're still
    mystified as to the mechanism.  BTW, this is the only FM we have on the
    Japanese NLIO.

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