On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:22:54PM +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:15:46AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > > Yes. It's fixed in the next maintenance release (2.4.6). I'm > > planning to release it within this week. > > > > There is still one open issue for 2.4.6 it is the compound text > patch. I recall the problem: > > If the locale gives a charset != ISO-8859-1 (or a subset of this > charset) and if the title of an application with i18n support > has non ASCII characters then the application gives a COMPOUND_TEXT > WM_NAME hints (same for the icon title). > So if fvwm is compiled without multibyte support the window title > contains string(s) of the form ?*ISO8859-15?* as the WM_NAME is > taken as a STRING. > Notes: - ISO-8859-1 is now obsolete in the all Europe > - It seems that it is not easy to filter a COMPOUND_TEXT string > by hands > - We've get at least 3 bugs report on this from the bug tracking > system > > So I would like to apply the patch that fix this. I've not > yet applied this patch to 2.4.6 (it is applied to 2.5.x: > COMPOUND_TEXT, on by default) because we do not take a decision > about the default. I think that this patch should be on by default > but Dan was not very happy with this. I've got one positive > feedback from Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov which test the patch > with koi8-r and I test it with ISO8859-15. > So I need one more advice from an fvwm workers.
Is that issue so pressing that we want to delay 2.4.6 for it? There have been a number of fixes that people are waiting for. I wanted to keep making maintenance releases as long as fixes from the development branch can be back ported with only small modifications, so we don't need to hurry. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LifeBits Aktiengesellschaft, Albrechtstr. 9, D-72072 Tuebingen fon: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-0, fax: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-20 -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
