Re: FVWM: font problem

From: Max Ischenko <max_at_malva.com.ua>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:23:38 +0300

Dominik Vogt wrote:

> > To summarize:
> > 1. I see localised window titles of most apps (like GVim),
> > except mozilla/galeon with --disable-mb.
>
> Um, you have localised window titles *without* multibyte support
> compiled in? Then I do not understand anything about mb works with
> X. Can someone explain how this is possible?

I'm using Russian and I don't ever need multibyte support.
Cyrrilic is 8bit encoding.

$ locale
LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_NUMERIC=POSIX
LC_TIME="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_ALL=

I'm using my windows fonts *.ttf for X (Arial, Courier New, etc.).
They support a bunch of encoding like koi8, iso*.

>
> > If I build fvwm with
> > --enable-mb then _all_ window titles looks just fine, BUT fvwm complains
> > about my fonts as "invalid".
>
> Actually, X complains about this, not fvwm. It would be possible
> to fall back to using the "C" locale to load the font, but that
> will require a major rewrite of the multibyte code (which will be
> done anyway some time in the future).

I'm sure russian can work without any multibyte support.
For example, I compiled Vim without multibyte and it grok me fine.

> > 2. All looks fine under blackbox wm.
>
> We did claim that mb support is experimental, didn't we? ;-)

OK ;-)

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Received on Tue Jun 26 2001 - 02:43:23 BST

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