Re: UTF-8 out-of-the box experience

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kaixo!

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:32:48PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Pablo Saratxaga writes:
> > the most annoying thing is the broken fontset support at XFree86
> > level
> 
> What is broken there?

The same as reported on the message I replied to: proper utf-8 is used,
but each byte of a multibyte char is displayed af it is were a signle
iso8859-1 char.

Note xterm and gtk2 work well; it is not that utf-8 can't be displayed at all
but that the standard way to use fontsets don't work (for example all Gnome
programs are able to properly display when setting the locale to koi8-r
or euc-jp encoding, the libX11 properly find the right fontset and displays
the text; but with utf-8 it doesn't work.

> The 4.0.99.2 snapshot works fine for me in a
> de_DE.UTF-8 locale.

Well, I have XFree86 4.0.3, maybe it has been fixed in current CVS; maybe
it is a compile time option?
 
> > There is also another bug, in 'ls'.
> > Try a 'touch somefile' with a utf8 name, then doing an ls; you will see
> > only '?'.
> 
> This is fixed in fileutils-4.1.

Nice.

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Ki ça vos våye bén,
Pablo Saratxaga

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