Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Jay,

I think he probably sent the patches for me to make a release with.  You 
shouldn't have to do anything with them yourself.

Harold

Jay Smith wrote:
> Dear Kensuke,
>
> Thank you very much for your effort on this.
>
> Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant of these matters, thus you will have 
> to tell me what it is that I should do with the two .diff files you 
> attached. I will be happy to do whatever with them, but I am clueless as 
> to what is to be done with them.
>
> Sorry to be a pain.
>
> Jay
>
> Kensuke Matsuzaki said the following on 10/12/2003 09:33 PM:
>
> > Jay,
> >
> > Perhaps this patch enable XWin to copy/paste non-ascii characters
> > even if Windows does't support Unicode (95/98/Me).
> > LANG environment variable and Windows locale must be same.
> > I added -nounicodeclipboard option, I tested using this on XP.
> > But I don't have 95/98/Me.
> >
> > And it seems tha libX11 has some CTEXT convertion bug, I attach
> > patch that based on TAKABE's work.
> > http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~t-takabe/xf410_xim_fix.diff
> >
> > By the way, nls/locale.alias has alias somethig like
> > "Arabic_Egypt.1256". Can we use that?
> > If so, we no longer need LANG environment variable.
> > We can get it following code.
> >
> >   char pszCountry[128];
> >   char pszLanguage[128];
> >   int nAcp = GetACP ();
> >     GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY, 
> > pszCountry, 128);
> >   GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE, 
> > pszLanguage, 128);
> >
> >   printf ("%s_%s.%d\n", pszLanguage, pszCountry, nAcp);
> >
> > Kensuke Matsuzaki