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

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Drazen Kacar wrote:

> 
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > They are crufty hacks, and they make everyone in Eastern Europe whine
> > a lot. (Because people in 8-bit locales frequently do things Wrong and
> > try to switch between languages by changing font rather than changing
> > locale.)
> 
> 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.

 You seem to be totally wrong.
 It's easily possible to switch locales at run time.

 Best regards,
  -Vlad