On Yaum al-Ahad 17 Rabi` al-Thaani 1425 06:31 pm, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
> --- Munzir Taha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Test 1:
> > > execute bicon as 'bicon sd' then enter
In a terminal: bicon sd gives
Error: Can't find file "pc/sd" for symbols include
Exiting
Abandoning symbols file "(null)"
Error: success in unknown
Couldn't write keyboard description to :0.0
BiCon started
> > which proves the BACSPACE is working properly here.
Sorry! I meant to say it does delete a character not a byte.
> So it is working internally. In terms of visual appearance what happens?
> Using the word ØØØ for example. In my machine if I press the letters Ø then
> Ø then Ø then BACKSPACE then Ø I see on the screen ØØØ that is the last
> character is not linked to the ones before, no shaping. If I try to write
> an Arabic word and then move using arrow keys the output is even worse.
Same here.
> What I meant is that under bicon use the command cat with no input or
> output. What will happen is that if you key in any characters then pressed
> enter the characters will be typed back to you in the screen. Try inputting
> the same sequence of characters including the backspace and report if the
> next output line is the same as the previous.
No, it's not. It echoed this instead:
ÑØïï
> Don't worry. I have already enough bugs at my disposal:) Please do me this
> test again. I need to know if it is a specifity in my machine or
> everywhere.
>
> By the way, please do the above tests in the console mode not in an x
> terminal.
In Mandrake 10, I couldn't type a single arabic character from the console
(VT) and hence can only test from a terminal. You can see the bug I filed at
bicon bugzilla and re-read the funny story of the black hole that wants to
absorb me at console ;)
> The bugs under an x terminal are so different than those under
> console mode that I usually think of them as seperate products.
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