[XBoard-devel] Re: Internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) of XBoard/WinBoard

[A. Alper ATICI]

Hello everybody!

I can contribute to i18n effort, actually I've already checked out 
4.2.pre7 and started fiddling with it.

AFAICS, XBoard does not select font with the correct charset unless 
stated explicitly with -font option. Do you think usage of this option 
should be imposed to get localized output and the code left intact, 
or should FindFont() be updated to handle this? (and for the latter, 
what do you suggest? FontSets?)

As for WinBoard, we'll need gettext and libiconv installed on target 
platform. Will the user be responsible for that? (there already exist 
win32 binaries of these packages on Gnu mirrors, i.e. *.bin.woe32.zip)

regards,
A. Alper ATICI

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