On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:27:44PM +0100, John Latham wrote: > With 2.4.6 (a la Red Hat 7.3 rpm) I got: > > [FVWM][GetFontSetOrFixed]: WARNING -- can't get fontset fixed, trying 'fixed' > > This was followed by some other font problems, e.g. the FvwmPager and > FvwmButtons. (And FvwmTaskBar...) > > Red Hat have enabled multi-byte fonts in their 2.4.6 RPM, and I note such is > not a default compile option of 2.4. Is that the basis of the problem? >
Yes > I wanted to get AnotherLevelUp to work okay with a standard Red Hat fvwm RPM, > so grepping for clues through old emails on this list I tried putting > > SetEnv LANG C > SetEnv LC_CTYPE "" > > early in the configuration. This seemed to get rid of some font problems, > although not the above error message presumeably because that occurs before > the SetEnv. (I could set LANG to C in the Xclients, etc, but it is not worth > it just to get rid of one benign error message, and I have a FVWM version > specific mechanism for the FVWM config commands in AnotherLevelUp, so the > SetEnv is put in only for 2.4.*.) > > The same behaviour was exhibited in 2.4.8 (after I remembered to enable > multibyte). > > It all works fine with 2.5.2, no need to alter locale. :-) > :o) > Would I be right in summarising that the 2.5 series has multi-byte fonts > sorted `properly', whereas they are still `dodgey' in 2.4 and hence they were > disabled by default; and Red Hat was `wrong' to enable them in their > distributed RPM? Or am I missing something? > Multibyte should be enabled in 2.4.x only for a CJK language. Unfortunately, the code is not perfect. We have rewrite the "locale" code in 2.5.x. Regards, Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
