From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-05-07T16:27:53+09:00
Subject: Re: WxRuby or FxRuby

Hello Gyoung-Yoon,

GYN> Hi,

GYN> FxRuby is a highly recommendable toolkit for its popularity and maturity.
GYN> But it has a crucial problem for multibyte input, especially critical to CJK
GYN> Windows users. This problem is inherited from Fox toolkit which FxRuby
GYN> is based on, and I don't know any detail of other m18n related issues about
GYN> Fox. Do they have any motivation or plan to support m18n issues? How's
GYN> going with other Latin* languages? Is it only CJK && Windows problem?

GYN> I don't know whether XIM or other X-based input methods such as IIIMF,
GYN> UIM, SCIM etc are sufficiently portable to Non-UNIX platform. And I don't
GYN> know how can other cross-platform toolkits provide multilingual input feature.

FOX does only support ISO-8859-1. Thats it. Theres a patch out there
for SWT-FOX that allows other 8-bit charsets but unfortunately
last month where i tried it it crashed on some Linux systems with
errors in the fontconfig library.

Unicode is on the way. I guess it is ready in a year or two. This will
then also contain other I18N and M17N features. Unfortunately Jeroen
want to implement everything on his own, so it takes a huge amount of
time.

GYN> Anyway, it is a sad news to CJK people that the toolkit which has serious
GYN> deficiency of m18n are most popular.

Which remainds me that i've never seen any open source toolkit from
this CJK people. With so many chinese, indian, korean, taiwanese, japanese
programmer out there, why not implement this instead of asking for support.
It's that even red flag linux does not give back I18N patches.


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