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Alan Coopersmith wrote on 2004-08-16 16:35 UTC:
Markus Kuhn wrote:
I have substantially revised and updated the long neglected KEYSYM
Encoding specification in Appendix A of the X11 Protocol Standard. The
result, which I propose for inclusion into the next X.Org release,
is on
http
://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246
There is also a wiki page on the subject on
http://freedesktop.org/XOrg/KeySyms
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minor editorial fixes for better consistency, comments
added that clarify the Unicode mapping rule.
Unless someone shouts with an objection, I will submit these for inclusion
into the X.Org and XFree86 trees soon.
Proposed update to the X11 standard will follow shortly.
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Danilo Segan wrote on 2004-08-05 10:51 UTC:
Yesterday at 19:35, Jörg Henne wrote:
Markus Kuhn wrote:
If you do something in this area, please implement the ISO 14755 hex
input method, and not the old MS-Windows one. (Or implement both
together, if you really need MS-Windows
, and not the old MS-Windows one. (Or implement both
together, if you really need MS-Windows compatibility here. They don't
interfere with each other, because the ISO 14755 technique uses
Ctrl-Shift to activate the hex-entry mode, while MS-Windows uses Alt.)
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major X.Org release.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#x11
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Keysyms probably will be next. More on the xorg_arch mailing list:
http://www.x.org/XOrg_Foundation_Join_OpenLists.html
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://ftp.x.org/pub/R6.4/xc/fonts/bdf/.
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Remote and local security vulnerabilities in XFree86 font libraries
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/335592
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can provide it with which Unicode character.
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zone set correctly, that is
date -u must show Universal Time (GMT) and date must show
local time
- file a bug report to the author of the program that you belive
last wrote the above XML file and remind them of the SGML
comment syntax
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eavesdropping, a in comparison far more significant threat.
And once you believe that you have taken care of RF shielding, you can
start to worry about optical VHF leaks from CRTs:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html
The fun never ends.
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they are dithered significantly.
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might be
a far more important concern (as a friend of mine learned painfully
recently, when he finally realized the difference between a realdog and
a robodog after burglars took his Aibo).
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of a glyph, as it would be essential to make sure the filtering
does not actually leak more information on digital video links.
Putting an anti-tempest filter into freetype2 has been on my todo list
for a long time (and might remain there a bit longer given current
workload).
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file and not in some rendering routine is merely a technical
detail and shouldn't change trademark issues in any way.
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The 6x13, 8x13, 9x15, 9x18, and 10x20 -misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1 XFree86
fonts all contain the Thai block of Unicode and XFree86 xterm supports that
in UTF-8 mode.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
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Matthias Scheler wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:40:12PM +, Markus Kuhn wrote:
What would be the best starting point to write a SunRay driver for
XFree86?
The first step would be booting a SunRay from a machine which is not
running Sun's SunRay software. And because SunRay's only
and combining
sequences (in the Postscript glyph name now separated by _).
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to represent the Unicode character U+abcd.
Also read:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#x11
Instead of xmodmap, also consider to use xkbcomp.
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Sylvain Pasche wrote on 2002-08-11 22:16 UTC:
LANG=C
-export LANG
+LC_ALL=C
+export LANG LC_ALL
The line
export LC_ALL=C
should replace all of the above in any environment where the
script author wants to disable all locale-dependent behaviour.
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Andreas Tobler wrote on 2003-01-03 12:36 UTC:
e.g. key TLDE {[0x0100+0x2030]}
0x01002030
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote on 2002-12-13 10:13 UTC:
Looking at the unicode charts (especially the character name index
http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html
) I see that ASCII dot 0x2E has become Unicode 0x002E Decimal Point
and ASCII comma 0x2C has become 0x002C decimal
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote on 2002-12-13 10:13 UTC:
Looking at the unicode charts (especially the character name index
http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html
) I see that ASCII dot 0x2E has become Unicode 0x002E Decimal Point
and ASCII comma 0x2C has become 0x002C decimal
frankie wrote on 2002-12-09 10:12 UTC:
May i know where can i find some free fonts that support Microsoft
Windows Codepage 1257 (Baltic) for X-Windows(4.0.2). I have downloaded
latin7 font in pcf format, but it's not support all the character in 1257
codepage. Can some body help!
Thanks for the fast bug fix. I hope, RedHat/Suse/etc. will fix this in
their RPMs *very soon*, otherwise the UTF-8 locales remain completely
unuseable for everyone on an X server without XKBD (e.g., Solaris).
Ivan Pascal wrote on 2002-11-29 12:46 UTC:
But under the UTF-8 locale XLookupString
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote on 2002-11-28 11:36 UTC:
'A knot!' said Alice. 'Oh, do let me help to undo it!'
Could you please put an xscope dump on the web somewhere ?
Thanks! I didn't know about xscope.
The requested dump is now on
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/xev-adiaeresis-utf8.txt
In order to hunt down a very odd problem with the XmbLookupString and
Xutf8LookupString functions, I have extended the good old xev command to
print the output of these two functions as well, in addition to that of
XLookupString.
In order to use XmbLookupString or Xutf8LookupString, one needs to
I think I have run into a serious bug with XFree86's Xutf8LookupString
implementation. It occurs when the client runs under XFree86 4.[12], but
the X server is for example Solaris 5.8
vendor string:Sun Microsystems, Inc.
vendor release number:6410
(also occurs on Solaris 5.7). It
Is the X (4.x) supporting Unicode/16 Bit encoding ? How ?
Yes, to some degree. To get started, try:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
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Emil Soleyman-Zomalan wrote on 2002-11-14 16:00 UTC:
Just for my own knowledge, what would be the disadvantage of creating a
new set of keysyms for Syriac as already has been done for several other
languages?
There is nothing wrong in principle with adding new keysyms, however the
integer
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote on 2002-11-12 16:49 UTC:
Use nl_langinfo(3), but it's an SUSv2 interface (i.e. it's not in POSIX)
POSIX.{1,2}:2001 and SUSv4 are the same thing now.
So nl_langinfo(CODESET) is now actually officially part of the holy
dogma of the church of POSIX. Halleluhia.
I had originally argued strongly in favour of a BACKSPACE display
semantics that removes the character left of the cursor (let's call this
character L), and then moves the cursor wcwidth(L) character cells
to the left. This is by far the most sensible solution, because this
way, if you echo the
Oscar A. Valdez wrote on 2002-10-01 22:37 UTC:
How do I configure XFree86 v. 4.1.0 to get ñ,Ñ,á,é,í,ó and ú on a
US-layout keyboard?
If it is only for personal single-user use, then .Xmodmap is still
the simplest solution.
I routinely type German and English text on a UK keyboard with the
Viveka Nathan K wrote on 2002-09-30 10:56 UTC:
I wish to use the unicode encoding.
How can I know, which applications are supporting the unicode.
What should I need to do, to make an application to support unicode ?
Read
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
to get started.
Pablo Saratxaga wrote on 2002-09-16 11:25 UTC:
The Adobe Helvetica fonts shipped with XFree86 4.2 provide a lot of
vietnamese glyphs, however, are missing all the ones with the hook tone
marker; that makes them unsuitable for vietnamese; but then why providing
the other vietnamese-only
Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote on 2002-08-26 08:48 UTC:
The first is that simply using *-iso10646-1 fonts as defaults.
This could already be achieved by changing in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias
the line
fixed-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
to
fixed
Another quick discussion related to font file format philosophy:
Is hinting really worth the effort?
Font file formats (even scalable ones) in principle ought to be
relatively simple creatures. The only aspect that really adds enormous
amounts of complexity, both with regard to the
Jungshik Shin wrote on 2002-08-06 15:05 UTC:
You can use one of 18pixel iso10646-1 bitmap fonts included in XF86
4.x with more CJK characters than 13pixel font:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ko-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1
Attached is an old email that represents the most authoritative
information that I have on the diacritic characters used in dictionaries
of the Welsh language. Hope this helped ...
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I've started working on the -misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1 fonts again, in
particular on upgrading them towards Unicode 3.2 coverage. I did already
6x13, 9x15 and 9x18, though many of the really obscure new maths symbols
and arrows are still missing. If there is something you would like to
contribute
Keith Packard wrote on 2002-07-10 01:09 UTC:
AFAIK, SUS and POSIX say
that it's implementation-dependent.
Too bad the POSIX spec is closed so I can't check.
For all of you who haven't heard yet, SUS3 and POSIX:2001 are now the
same thing and are freely available online on
Keith Packard wrote on 2002-07-10 01:09 UTC:
AFAIK, SUS and POSIX say
that it's implementation-dependent.
Too bad the POSIX spec is closed so I can't check.
For all of you who haven't heard yet, SUS3 and POSIX:2001 are now the
same thing and are freely available online on
Keith Packard wrote on 2002-07-06 10:34 UTC:
I got the European coverage information from
http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/
I don't know why all of the latin languages include @ and ', it's
probably just a mistake; they're easily removed.
Actually, thanks to URLs and email
Vinod wrote on 2002-06-05 17:01 UTC:
Hi there.I had just installed the linux realplayer on
my freebsd 4.5 release and the real player works just
fine.but all letters on the buttons of the player are
replaced by small squares.like the 'OK' button is a
button with two squares, 'File' with 4
As we are talking about en_US.UTF-8:
General warning: Please do not use the locale name en_US.UTF-8 anywhere
outside North America. Some older Solaris documentation suggested that
this is the only UTF-8 locale you'll ever need, as locales don't change
much sensible beyond the encoding anyway.
James A. Crippen wrote on 2002-03-24 02:39 UTC:
Markus Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
En and em dashes, ellipses, etc. are available under XFree86 in the ISO
10646-1 encoding in the 0x20XY range.
Can Type1 fonts be larger than 256 characters though? I thought they
couldn't unless
Julian Laub wrote on 2002-03-01 09:29 UTC:
I just installed Suse 7.3 and Xfree 3.3.6 (my Cirrus Logic 7555 is not
supported by newer version) on a new computer and everything works fine
exept that most fonts are displayed as white boxes.
Ancient GTK bug that makes it allergic to presence of
Nadim Shaikli wrote on 2002-02-28 23:48 UTC:
What are your comments on mlterm, patch27, biditext (have you used 'em) ?
Can you send me a compact exact specification of the exact bidi
semantics of these implementations? I haven't seen one yet and I don't
have the time to reverse engineer these.
Keyur Shroff wrote on 2002-02-26 08:57 UTC:
The X protocol is not specified in terms of code points
of character sets.
See 'man XDrawString'. See the defination of string
stringSpecifies the character string.
[...]
At all these places I found the indication of using
Mark Leisher wrote on 2002-02-13 00:29 UTC:
I respect Markus too much to think this was anything more than a subconscious
plea for simplicity and symmetry, born of irritation with messy reality. Sort
of absentmindedly muttering out loud when someone is nearby.
What I primarily wanted to
Tzafrir Cohen wrote on 2002-02-12 18:46 UTC:
I think it might be a good idea to really keep bidi completely out of
xterm. If people want to play around with bidi terminal semantics, then
I would suggest that they build a filter that can be plugged in between
the LTR terminal and the
Brian Stell wrote on 2002-02-04 15:44 UTC:
What happens when the iso10646 font does not have all the
char/glyphs in a iso8859-x encoding?
The strageties I can think of are:
1) produce a iso8859-x font with missing glyph:
This seems likely to cause blank chars to be
Mike A. Harris wrote on 2002-02-02 03:15 UTC:
It might as well say Sun did
not design this software for use in making peanut butter
sandwiches if it bares no real meaning.
The day /bin/laden finds out how to use beanut butter to kill 3000 US
citizens every year (e.g., by merely watching
Mike A. Harris wrote on 2002-01-30 11:11 UTC:
I am afraid that statement in Sun license above exactly means that you can't
use this software (ST library) in design, construction, operation or
maintenance of any nuclear facility, including nuclear reactors and nuclear
weapons.
That is
RTTJ wrote on 2002-01-28 21:56 UTC:
I'm working with a local tribe whose language is written with a subset of the
IPA, International Phonetics Alphabet.
[... lengthy essey on some obscure Win32 product deleted ...]
If what you *really* want to achieve under Linux is to edit plaintext
files
RTTJ wrote on 2002-01-23 20:08 UTC:
Did you see the email this abuser sent?
Don't panic. It's called spam, and the best way of dealing with it is
a fast delete function in your emailer. Not having the HTML parser of
your mailer active it a plus as well, and rejecting any HTML-only email
reduces
Moe Elzubeir wrote on 2002-01-22 17:08 UTC:
The subsetting system is in place already, so now what?
I still have not fully understood, what exactly is in place
and how well does it work in X11R6. For example
xfd -fn '-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-*-75-75-C-*-ISO10646-1[0_0xff]'
Alexander Gelfenbain wrote on 2002-01-17 19:59 UTC:
I can confirm that the license ST will be released with is BSD+ which is
standard BSD with the following clause:
* You acknowledge that this software is not designed, licensed or indended
* for use in the design, construction, operation
Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote on 2002-01-10 10:58 UTC:
At Wed, 09 Jan 2002 18:07:03 +,
Markus Kuhn wrote:
.. unless an explicit subrange specification is present, such that
people have to write
*-iso10646-1[0_0x]
if they are sure that they want to have the full font
Moe Elzubeir wrote on 2002-01-08 00:12 UTC:
I have been looking into the U+3000 limit and how the 10x20 font is
being truncated to save memory space.
This 'truncation' of the 10x20 for 'optimization' is seriously hampering
our efforts to bring Arabic support on platforms where XFree86 runs.
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote on 2002-01-08 14:16 UTC:
Font subsetting is fully implemented in the BDF, PCF, Type 1, Speedo
and freetype backends. I haven't checked the SNF or X-TT backends.
Try
xfd -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-75-75-c-*-iso8859-1[65_90]'
Very nice, I
Keith Packard wrote on 2001-12-28 19:54 UTC:
I should have monochrome text running in a week or so to give people a
chance to experiment with performance over links of various sorts. When
I've done this in other environments, I've found performance to be
acceptable down to 2B ISDN speeds;
Roozbeh Pournader wrote on 2001-12-27 22:58 UTC:
I remember the discussion here about the font naming and structure issues
for non-BMP characters. But I cannot remember the outcome (and if there
were oppositions). Since we are thinking about doing some work on Pango to
support non-BMP
Steve Swales wrote on 2001-12-14 19:56 UTC:
I suggest that instead of using server-side fonts, Xft
should rasterize glyphs with FreeType and draw with the Render extension
where available and using the core protocol for legacy servers without
Render support.
But every glyph would
Steve Swales wrote on 2001-12-14 18:17 UTC:
Since render is not yet a standard extension, and making this change would
disable Xft on all commercial X servers aside from XFree86, I would caution
against it at this time.
I think, Keith addressed that objection already in his original
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jungshik Shin wrote:
JC If you desire a different behaviour, you should either try to get your
JC applications to work with `-p-' fonts, or push for a ``biwidth'' `-b-'
JC spacing type to be included in a future versions of the XLFD.
If the answer to my two questions
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 21:57, Sergej Malinovski wrote:
I was reading the free FontLab Manual the other day and it says that
you can patent fonts.
The verb to patent is a bit misleading here, because the underlying
legislation is not the patent law, but the designs law of the
respective
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, _ _ wrote:
There is a very serious problem with many X
applications that has been bugging me for some time,
and I'd like to know what you all have to say on the
matter and what is being done about it. The problem is
that if you create a fixed-width BDF font and have
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Ryan Eatmon wrote:
For the past few releases I've been missing the misc 6x10 Bold font.
I use the 6x10 as my main font, and looking at man pages and top with no
matching bold is not fun.
There never has been a 6x10B font in any X11 release as far as
I am aware. 6x13 is
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Steve Swales wrote:
XIM is working very well with the CSI (code-set independent) version of xterm
provided by Li18nux.org (patches from IBM). It works equally well in our UTF-8
locales and our non-UTF-8 locales. Because of this (CSI), Sun will be adopting
this version
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