XpSetLocaleHinter(3Xp) X Version 11 XpSetLocaleHinter(3Xp)NAMEXpSetLocaleHinter - Sets a "locale hinter" function and description of
it.
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lXp [ library... ]
#include <X11/extensions/Print.h>
void XpSetLocaleHinter ( hinter_proc hinter_desc )
XPHinterProc hinter_proc;
char *hinter_desc;
ARGUMENTS
hinter_proc
A pointer to a "hinter proc".
hinter_desc
A pointer to contextual information about the locale hinter
proc.
DESCRIPTION
Since (to date) there is no single industry standard for locale values,
locale information about the current client required by XpCreateCon‐
text, XpGetPrinterList and XpGetPdmStartParams is at best considered a
"hint" when transmitted to the X Print Server and PDM. In single vendor
environments, the locale hint should be consistent and understood. In
multi-vendor environments however, the locale hint may or may not be
understood. The caller locale will be used as the fallback default.
XpSetLocaleHinter and XpGetLocaleHinter access hooks that are used to
register more advanced hint generators. By default, Xp uses a hinter
proc that calls setlocale on the CTYPE category on POSIX systems, and
hinter_desc is NULL.
XpSetLocaleHinter sets the hinter_proc and hinter_desc which will be
subsequently used by the Xp calls requiring a locale hint (see above).
hinter_proc is the function that will generate the locale hint (for
example, "C"), and hinter_desc is a string, with or without the embed‐
dable keyword %locale%, that provides a higher level context for the
results of hinter_proc.
If hinter_proc is set to NULL, then the default Xp hinter proc is
installed. XpSetLocaleHinter makes its own private copy of hinter_desc
prior to returning.
An example set call might look as follows:
XpSetLocaleHinter( my_hinter, "%locale%;CDElocale" );
Where my_hinter might look as follows:
char *my_hinter()
{
return( my_x_strdup( setlocale(LC_CTYPE, (char *) NULL) ) );
}
When the client's locale is needed, if both hinter_desc and the results
of hinter_proc are non-NULL, and the keyword %locale% is found in hin‐
ter_desc, then the keyword will be replaced with the result of hin‐
ter_proc. The resulting string will be used as the locale hint by the
Xp calls.
If both hinter_desc and the results of hinter_proc are non-NULL, but
the keyword %locale% is not found in hinter_desc, then hinter_desc, as
is, becomes the string used as the locale hint by the Xp calls.
If one of hinter_desc or the results of hinter_proc is NULL, then the
other non-NULL value becomes the string used as the locale hint by the
Xp calls.
If hinter_desc and the results of hinter_proc are NULL, then a NULL
(i.e. (char *) NULL) locale hint is sent by the Xp calls.
The syntax for hinter_desc is a variation of the unadopted X/Open stan‐
dard for a "String Network Locale-Specification Syntax" (X/Open, Dis‐
tributed Internationalization Services, Version 2, 1994 Snapshot). The
Xp hinter_desc syntax is:
name_spec[;registry_spec[;ver_spec[;encoding_spec]]]
In Xp, the first item is the locale name, followed by progressively
more detailed information about the locale name, with each piece of
information separated by a `;'.
STRUCTURES
The signature for hinter_proc is defined in <X11/extensions/Print.h> as
follows:
typedef char * (*XPHinterProc)();
hinter_proc is expected to return a string that can be freed using
XFree by the Xp calls themselves.
Some examples include ( hinter_desc to left, expanded results to the
right):
CFRENCH CFRENCH
%locale% C
%locale%;CDElocale C;CDElocale
%locale%;HP C;HP
%locale%;IBM C;IBM
%locale%;XOPEN;01_11;XFN-001001 de_DE;XOPEN;01_11;XFN-001001
FILES
<X11/extensions/Print.h>
SEE ALSOXpCreateContext(3Xp), XpGetLocaleHinter(3Xp), XpGetPdmStartParams(3Xp),
XpGetPrinterList(3Xp), XpSetLocaleHinter(3Xp)Solaris X11 6.6.2 22 May 2004 XpSetLocaleHinter(3Xp)
