From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA28130; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:41:53 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA28121 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:41:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from chronis.pobox.com (chronis.rightbox.com [208.210.125.241]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h3AHfpX20756 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:41:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by chronis.pobox.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7DD119B20; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:41:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:41:19 -0400 From: scott To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] labltk vs lablgtk Message-ID: <20030410134119.A95310@chronis.pobox.com> References: <20030410171825.GA10613@swordfish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20030410171825.GA10613@swordfish>; from mgushee@havenrock.com on Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:18:26AM -0600 X-Spam: no; 0.00; chronis:01 caml-list:01 labltk:01 lablgtk:01 0600,:01 gushee:01 western:99 unicode:01 gtk:01 0200,:01 henri:03 wrote:03 hack:03 cons:03 wondering:04 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners