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From: bls@texhrc.UUCP (Brian L. Sumner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Internationalization
Keywords: Labels on Widgets
Message-ID: <259@texhrc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 89 16:52:33 GMT
Organization: Texaco Houston Res. Cntr Hou, Tx
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The designers of X had the good sense to allow for the possibility
of 16 bit fonts, but I have not seen this push for internationalization
in many of the widget libraries becoming available.

In particular, while `Label' is a common resource for many widgets,
I have not seen any resource of type `LabelRepresentation'.  Unfortunately
most (not all) widgets assume a `LabelRepresentation' of type "Ascii".
While this is fine for the U.S. it is not fine for other countries.
Ideally, `LabelRepresentation' would be one out of "Ascii",
"ISO Latin 1", "ISO Latin-Greek", "ISO Kanji", etc., and resource
converters would be available for these.

I understand DEC has something like this, any others?