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From: whitty@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Joe Whitty)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Trouble using Motif's XmText widget with k14 Kanji Font
Message-ID: <110630015@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 20:17:27 GMT
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> / hpcvlx:comp.windows.x.motif / dimitar@quintus.UUCP (Dimitar Bojantchev) /  4:14 pm  Oct  5, 1990 /
> 
> I am unable to display text in the XmText widget if I set the font to
> k14, (two byte, Japanese font).  Looking through the sources of the
> text widget it seems that it should handle 16 bit characters, at least
> there is code to invoke XDrawImageString16 to draw the text.  It seems
> that I am setting the right character codes because it works for me if
> I invoke XDrawImageString16 directly.  What am I doing wrong then?
> 
> I am using Motif1.0 and Motif1.1 on SUN4/110.

Sorry, you'll have to wait until Motif 1.2 to get 16-bit support.
There is no way to get the code the execute the XDrawImageString16()
call in Motif 1.0 or Motif 1.1.

> Thanks,
> 
> Dimitar
> 
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Joe Whitty