We are happy to announce a new version of Unison with a user interface
based on Gtk 2.2, enabling display of filenames with any locale encoding.

Please note that this is a source-code-only alpha release. To use it,
you will need to download the developer source tarball and recompile it
from scratch. (A binary release will happen in due course, when we've
shaken out the bugs.)

- Stephen Tse and Benjamin Pierce

==== from src/README.gtk2

In order to use gtk2 with unison,

1) install glib, pango, gtk (version >2.2)
from http://www.gtk.org/

2) install lablgtk2 (version >20030423)
from http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soft/olabl/lablgtk.html

3) install unison (version >2.9.36)
from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Simply type 'make'.

Makefile will detect the presence of lablgtk2 directory
$(OCAMLLIBDIR)/lablgtk2 (such as /usr/local/lib/ocaml/lablgtk2/)
and use UISTYLE=gtk2 by default. If absent, it falls back to
lablgtk with UISTYLE=gtk, then back to UISTYLE=text.

You can force the selection by
make UISTYLE=gtk2
or make UISTYLE=gtk
or make UISTYLE=text

4) setup your locale environment properly
for example, export LANG=zh_HK.BIG5-HKSCS

otherwise, you will get
Uncaught exception Glib.GError("Invalid byte sequence in conversion input")

5) enjoy unison with i18n!


For gtk2-specific questions, please contact
Stephen Tse <stse@...>

For general questions, please contact
Benjamin Pierce <bcpierce@...>