Hi Mark,
Mark Eichin wrote:
> Appreciate the effort... except the resulting ratmenu doesn't actually
> display those characters, against a Karmic X server (where the uxterm
> example works fine.) XmbTextEscapement returns zero for the non-ASCII
> string, even though def_string is empty and missing_charset_count is
> zero...
Hrm, interesting.
> I haven't dug into the relevant X sources yet, but offhand, is there
> any locale, environment, or xrdb settings needed to demonstrate this?
> (uxterm does display the characters for me in the example...)
Did some more testing on different boxes. At least I have also some
corner case where it seems to fall back to a ISO8859-1 charset, but I
haven't found out yet why, just guesses.
Cases where it works fine for me:
* Locally on my EeePC running Sid i386 and only few selected fonts
installed. This is where I use it primarily.
* Remotely from my EeePC running Sid i386 and only few fonts installed
to my ThinkPad running Lenny amd64 and quite some fonts installed
* Locally on my ThinkPad running Lenny amd64 and quite some fonts
installed.
* Remotely from my EeeBox running Sid kfreebsd-i386 and tons of fonts
installed to my ThinkPad running Lenny amd64 and quite some fonts
installed.
Where it does not work for me:
* Remotely from a Xen DomU running Sid amd64 and IIRC nearly no fonts
installed to my workstation running Lenny amd64 and quite some fonts
installed.
* Remotely from a Xen DomU running Sid amd64 and IIRC nearly no fonts
installed to my ThinkPad running Lenny amd64 and quite some fonts
installed.
At least in the last combination, opening a remote uxterm and then
letting echo those characters works, too, though.
So I can only reproduce the non-functioning remotely on a virtual
machine which doesn't have a local X.
My current guess: There are some fonts on the Xen DomU missing (and
uxterm is maybe able to use remote fonts from the Lenny boxes). Since
it works fine on my 64-bit Thinkpad with Lenny, I don't expect a
64-bit issue.
Nevertheless: Is your Karmic 64-bit?
Will test it on some more boxes during the next days to get some more
samples for better guessing in which cases it works and in which not.
Plan: Test it with one karmic test box at work and with Xnest or
Xephyr on the Sid amd64 Xen DomU where it is currently not working for
me, to have a local display I can display remotely. Install some more
fonts on the Sid amd64 Xen DomU.
Regards, Axel
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