On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Maiorana, Jason wrote:
>
> > Does anybody here have a system where beyond-BMP glyphs work well
> > with? (Input Servers, font display, titlebars, etc)
> from the beginning with this in mind. I think most Linux programs don't
> suffer from what used to be a common misunderstanding(hope it's not any
> more) that Unicode is a 16bit character set unless they rely on old
....
What I wrote above is true in principle, but in reality, it appears
to be a different story. I've just made a file with three non-BMP
characters(U+10331, U+10332, U+10333. Gothic characters) with Yudit
(Yudit works well for this purpose. You can use 'Uxxxxyyyy' to enter
non-BMP characters with 'Unicode' keymap selected.) and read in that
file from gedit (with its font set to CODE2001). gedit doesn't show
anything although judging from the movement of the cursor, it certainly
knows there are characters where nothing is displayed.
kwin(in KDE 3.x) can't handle non-BMP characters in the title
bar of windows. I made a simple html file with <title> made of
three non-BMP chars mentioned above, viewed it with Mozilla
and ran 'xprop' over it. Mozilla correctly set _NET_WM_NAME
to UTF8_STRING corresponding to those three characters
(although it cannot render non-BMP characters in its browser
window.)
_NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = 0xf0, 0x90, 0x8c, 0xb1,
0xf0, 0x90, 0x8c, 0xb2,
0xf0 , 0x90, 0x8c, 0xb3,
..... snip...
However, kwin just ignored three characters and showed nothing in
their places even though I specifically set the font
for the title bar to Code2001.
I'll see how 'metacity' works.
Jungshik
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