Re: [Patch] libzvt totally broken for fontset, hence CJK.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Drazen Kacar <dave arsdigita com> writes:
> 
> That would be because there's a lot of applications which do things Wrong
> and don't react to locale change. Besides, Unix locale model is not
> capable of supporting several locales in one application, so the only way
> to achieve that effect is to cheat with fonts.
> 

I understand that it's more convenient to just change the font, but
apps can't support that while also supporting CJK correctly. So our
CJK patch breaks this trick. I got lots of flames in Red Hat bugzilla
when the patch went in.

Havoc