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From: scott <scott@chronis.rightbox.com>
To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] labltk vs lablgtk
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:41:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030410134119.A95310@chronis.pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030410171825.GA10613@swordfish>; from mgushee@havenrock.com on Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:18:26AM -0600

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:18:26AM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:00:58PM +0200, Henri Dubois-Ferriere wrote:
> > 
> > But since I'm going to live with this choice for quite a while, i'm 
> > wondering what are the broad pros/cons between labltk and lablgtk?
> > does anything stick out as being specific to one or the other?
> 
> Let's see ...
> 
[...]

> * (My impression is that) GTK has good Unicode support. Tk has had issues
>   with i18n for some time. The latest versions may be up to par, but I'm
>   not sure. Probably either would be fine for Western European
>   languages; the problems I have heard of were mostly related to
CJKV.

The new gtk (2) has good unicode support.  I'm not sure how that's
addressed in lablgtk (2).  Tk works with unicode, but labltk does
not.  It is possible to hack labltk to do this, but it's _very_ ugly
(trust me I've done it)

scott

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-10 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-10 14:00 Henri Dubois-Ferriere
2003-04-10 16:51 ` Eric C. Cooper
2003-04-10 17:18 ` Matt Gushee
2003-04-10 17:41   ` scott [this message]
2003-04-10 19:26     ` Henri Dubois-Ferriere
2003-04-10 19:57       ` Henri Dubois-Ferriere
2003-04-11  8:41   ` Sven Luther

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