Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:21PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > Wouter asked:
> > > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:22:45PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> > > > This library isn't truly abandoned by upstream, but essentially it's not
> > > > getting any new development. Cairo is considered the way forward and xprint
> > > > is widely (though not universally) considered a broken implementation.
> > > Just out of curiosity, could you point me to arguments in favour of
> > > Xprint?
> > http://www.dailynews.co.th/
> >
> > QED
>
> Err. You're saying Xprint is the only print implementation that can
> print non-latin stuff properly and reliably?

Until very revently, Mozilla family of products could print non-Latin properly 
only via Xprint. With Seamonkey-1.0.x, this is no longer true, and Xprint is no 
longer needed. (BTW it was never needed with Konqueror).

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Alexander E. Patrakov