Oh and by the way... I know there are a lot of warning at compile time. I plan to clean this all... But I thought it would be great to have a feedback already before the finale release.
Jehan Jehan a écrit : > Hi all, > > I am advancing well, and close to release some kind of "alpha". I want > to check very big bugs and mistakes first. Have anyone on the list tried > to compile the branch? Could you try maybe (with any option, none, all, > etc.) and tell me if you encounter issues, first for compilation, then > for running it... > > And of course if you can compile and run it, tell me if this works nice > with your favorite encoding (UTF-8 of course, but also any other... even > the less common ones... Note that for very complicated encoding, it is > better to have iconv installed, because the X method is not as > powerful as iconv... But usually iconv is always installed on most Linux > distribution I think, and on Unixes too). > > On this first try, I am especially interested on big issues > (compilation, font initialization problems, etc.), on most different > platforms and with different configuration files. > > Then when it seems really stable and when I am sure I have not really > broken some specific use, I will clean the code from everything which I > have commented from the old encoding method. And finally I will feel to > propose a nice beta in maybe a week or so. > > By the way, I added the font switching stuff (in xft only for now, later > also without Xft with X font system). > Just for the main changes: > - the option "-xftfm" does not exist anymore. The concept of "Multichar" > font was not relevant. > - the option "-xftfn" can now have multiple fonts, separated by commas ",". > > For instance, very typical example: > 1/ I want to use the font "Fixed" for all occidental characters. > 2/ I want to use the font "Sazanami Gothic" for Japanese characters. > Then I run: > mrxvt -xftfn 'Fixed,Sazanami Gothic' > > It will display everything in "Fixed", and when it does not find it, it > will display in "Sazanami Gothic". And you can add other fonts (up to 8 > different fonts) so that you can support arabic, chinese, japanese, > korean, etc. in the same terminal! Of course this implies that the font > is well made. For instance, I tried -xftfn "Mikachan,Fixed" and some > letter are displayed as missing glyph though they are available in > "Fixed" but other are well taken in "Fixed". Apparently this is because > "Mikachan" does not consider some character as missing, though it does > not have them! So I have to reverse order: "Fixed,Mikachan" and this is > better. > > Attached are 2 screenshot examples of -xftfn "Fixed,Sazanami Gothic". > > 1/ mrxvt_utf8_bash.png : here in bash, I made some echo of many > international characters. Notice the cursor on a double column letter: > it is also double (and when on a simple column, it is simple). > > 2/ mrxvt_utf8_vim.png : some Japanese and French (with a French special > character: 'Ç'). > > In both screenshots, all japanese characters are displayed in Sazanami > and the rest is displayed in Fixed. > Thanks all! > > Jehan > > > P.S.: there is still a big bug in the tab title... I will take care of > this hopefully this week (tomorrow evening if I have some time?). I > think after I have fixed this bug and if some people can confirm they > don't see big issues, I will release a beta. :-) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Materm-devel mailing list > Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel > mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Materm-devel mailing list Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net
