Mosaic-L10N: FAQ

General

Can I use both French and Chinese in a single document?: No. This enhancement is never for internationalization but only for switching between various localization. You cannot use two character sets (for example, French and Chinese) in a single document.
Is there any plan to make internationalization version of Mosaic?: Yes. But the load is long and winding...
Is Multi-localized Mosaic for Macintosh and/or MS-Windows available?: Not yet. We are now trying to get a license and source codes of those from NCSA. I cannot promise, but I think we are possible to make a multilingual version for MacMosaic/WinMosaic in the near future.

I am trying to patch, and I am getting this error. What was wrong? % patch -p < ../Mosaic-l10n.patch Hmm... I can't seem to find a patch in there anywhere.: The source level patch file is in the unified-context diff format and pre-2.0.12 (I don't know exactly) patch program cannot understand it. You might want to get the newest version (2.1?) of GNU patch. Try ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/patch-2.1.tar.gz, or your local area mirror sites.
I have fetched a font file via FTP. What should I do then?: After getting it, you have to install the BDF font according to the requirements of your X server. Mosaic has nothing to do with it. Basically, make a .snf or .pcf using your system's font-compiler, put it somewhere, run a command like `mkfontdir` or your system's equivalent (e.g. `bldfamily` for OpenWindows) in that directory, and and run a command like `xset`. This procedure varies and depends on your system, so please consult with your local X Windows guru. Or see the documentation for your X server for details. See the FAQ for comp.windows.x, question 36, for more. You might want to use `xset`, `xlsfonts` and `xfd` to check your work after the font is installed.
[thanks to Bob Sandstrom <sandstro@cac.washington.edu>]