GtkAda and German "Umlaute"

GtkAda and German "Umlaute"

[Frank Piron]

Hi,

i did some experimental playing with gtkada and didn't 
found some way to display german "Umlaute".

Setting the environment with LANG, etc., calling
setlocal() or parsing any suitable .gtkrc, this all did
not work.

Any idea ?

Frank Piron

Re: GtkAda and German "Umlaute"

[Preben Randhol]

Frank Piron wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i did some experimental playing with gtkada and didn't 
> found some way to display german "Umlaute".

My guess is that you use Windows. This doesn't work in GtkAda 1.2 as it
only supports the English alphabet. The GtkAda 2.0 fixes this, but there
isn't a binary version for Windows nor Linux yet unfortunately.
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Re: GtkAda and German "Umlaute"

[Frank Piron]

Hi Preben,

thanks and sorry, i forgot to mention the platform. Windows is right.
Is it possible, to build GtkAda2.0 from sources on Windows,
using the cygwin - tools and GTK+ sources ?

Frank

Preben Randhol schrieb:
> 
> Frank Piron wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i did some experimental playing with gtkada and didn't
> > found some way to display german "Umlaute".
> 
> My guess is that you use Windows. This doesn't work in GtkAda 1.2 as it
> only supports the English alphabet. The GtkAda 2.0 fixes this, but there
> isn't a binary version for Windows nor Linux yet unfortunately.
> --
> Preben Randhol ------------------------ http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --
> «There are three things you can do to a woman. You can love her, suffer
>  for her, or turn her into literature.»  - Justine, by Lawrence Durrell

Re: GtkAda and German "Umlaute"

[Preben Randhol]

Frank Piron wrote:
> Hi Preben,
> 
> thanks and sorry, i forgot to mention the platform. Windows is right.
> Is it possible, to build GtkAda2.0 from sources on Windows,
> using the cygwin - tools and GTK+ sources ?

It should be, but ask at the GtkAda mailing list before you do to get
some tips on how to do it. Also see here:

   http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/

As you will need these libraries too.

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Re: GtkAda and German "Umlaute"

[Adrian Knoth]

Frank Piron <frank.piron@konad.de> wrote:

> Hi Preben,

Hi, too.
 
> thanks and sorry, i forgot to mention the platform. Windows is right.
> Is it possible, to build GtkAda2.0 from sources on Windows,
> using the cygwin - tools and GTK+ sources ?
                                           ^ style check failed

This should be possible, but it is much work. You need to build GTK-2.0
before. Well, I claim that there is at least one bug in the UTF8-handling
of GTK-2.0. (why do they use UTF8? Wouldn't UTF16 be better?)



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Re: GtkAda and German "Umlaute"

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Adrian Knoth wrote:

> This should be possible, but it is much work. You need to build GTK-2.0
> before. Well, I claim that there is at least one bug in the UTF8-handling

Is there a FAQ out according this? I had tried to build GTK-2.0
and GtkAda 2.0 but with no success and also serched a lot about this
this topic.

Uli
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Re: GtkAda and German "Umlaute"

[Adrian Knoth]

Ulrich Eckhardt <uli.e@gmx.de> wrote:

>> This should be possible, but it is much work. You need to build GTK-2.0
>> before. Well, I claim that there is at least one bug in the UTF8-handling
> Is there a FAQ out according this? 

I'm not sure.

> I had tried to build GTK-2.0

Did you have success?

> and GtkAda 2.0 but with no success 

Only for GtkAda or even for GTK-2.0. This should be the first approach.
IIRC there are no precompiled gtk2-win32-libraries.

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Re: GtkAda and German "Umlaute"

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Adrian Knoth wrote:
> Ulrich Eckhardt <uli.e@gmx.de> wrote:

>>I had tried to build GTK-2.0
> Did you have success?

No. I had a lot of trouble with the different types of
the libs. Some are build for MinGW, others for GCC
and one for Microsoft Visual C  8-{

Uli
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Re: GtkAda and German "Umlaute"

[Preben Randhol]

Adrian Knoth wrote:
> Frank Piron <frank.piron@konad.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Preben,
> 
> Hi, too.
>  
>> thanks and sorry, i forgot to mention the platform. Windows is right.
>> Is it possible, to build GtkAda2.0 from sources on Windows,
>> using the cygwin - tools and GTK+ sources ?
>                                            ^ style check failed
> 
> This should be possible, but it is much work. You need to build GTK-2.0
> before. Well, I claim that there is at least one bug in the UTF8-handling
> of GTK-2.0. (why do they use UTF8? Wouldn't UTF16 be better?)

I don't know. I haven't studied UTFx much yet. But it is not possible to
use the binaries that they have already made of Gtk-2 for windows and just
compile GtkAda 2.0?


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