Olivier Chapuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
If I remember this, I observed that using one of the compound text functions caused another shared library to load under Solaris. Its a drawback, but not a major problem for me. I've pretty much stopped using Solaris on the desktop. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 444 Hoes Lane Room RRC 1C-214 Phone: (732) 699-5570 Piscataway, NJ 08854 -- 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]
