Re: Problem with hard-coded fonts in applications

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:35:46AM +0900, Yukihiro Nakai wrote:

> > The using of "*-r-*" made some gtk+/gnome application absolutely
> > _unusable_ for us.
> > 
> > 90% questions about GNOME in russians confs&mail-lists are "Why all menu
> > is in transliteration?" and "Is gnome so stupid that it can't use cursor
> > in the right way?"

Are those problems still the case if there is a valid font matching
before it ?
Can you provide an exemple of such problem ? (tell me a program
having the problem, the /etc/gtkrc{,.ru}, /usr/share/gtkrc{,.ru}
znd $HOME/.gtkrc used in such case; and the output of
"xgettext | grep koi8-r".
I'll try to reproduce it.

> If so, we need some guide lines for developers
> "Don't use *-r-* in your apps."

THe problem is that if you don't do that then it won't be usable
for a lot of languages, for example it won't work in japanese,
unless there is an explicit Japanese translation.



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Pablo Saratxaga

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