On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:22:39PM +0100, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
>
> > FvwmScript seems to be broken when inputting text in UTF-8 locale.
> > Inputting characters within ASCII (first 127) works as expected, but
> > umlated characters and so on produces strange characters (and sometimes
> > just a rectangle, the font's "unknown" characters).
> > The font has the requested characters. I think there is something strange
> > going on as to how keyboard input is handled, maybe just one byte is read
> > for each keyboard event?
>
> OK, I think I found where the problem is:
>
> modules/FvwmScript/Widgets/TextField.c (line 522 onwards)
>
> else if (i!=0) /* Cas d'un caractere normal */
> {
> /* Insertion du caractere dans le titre */
> /* a normal character: insertion in the title */
> Size=strlen(xobj->title);
> xobj->title=(char*)realloc(
> xobj->title,(2+Size)*sizeof(char));
>
> memmove(&xobj->title[NewPos+1],&xobj->title[NewPos],
> Size-NewPos+1);
> xobj->title[NewPos]=car[0];
> NewPos++;
> SendMsg(xobj,SingleClic);
> }
>
>
> No matter how many bytes are returned by XLookupString, only one byte
> (the first) is inserted into the widgets textbuffer.
> Also delete and moving (left, right) will need to be fixed.
> Actually it will also not work with right-to-left text.
>
> I think I will start to make it work for left-to-right text with no
> combining characters in it (like the UTF-8-equivalent to ISO-8859-1/2
> etc.)
> Would this be filed as a "normal bug"?
Sure. Actually, I don't understand exactly what a "anormal"
bug would be.
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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