Package: nedit Version: 1:5.6a-5
NEdit per default uses XFT fonts (antialised) now, which look very good. The problem is: This seems to work with non-ascii characters only in a UTF-8 environment. In my locale (LANG=de_DE@euro) I cannot enter a search string like 'abc_äöü_xyz'. äöü are skipped. (Interestingly, if I copy&paste this search string from the text window to the search dialog, it shows blanks after the first underline, but the search works ok and the occurrence is hit). I have checked, that running ~> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 nedit does not have this problem. But NEdit's text windows doesn't support UTF-8 (and I don't want it either). One "solution" is to use a bitmap font like previous NEdit versions did. ~> nedit -xrm "nedit*fontList: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-*" I have tried to set XFT font encoding, but no luck. ~> nedit -xrm "*renderTable: rt" -xrm "*rt*fontType: FONT_IS_XFT" -xrm "*rt*fontName: Serif" -xrm "*rt*fontSize: 10" -xrm "*rt*Encoding: iso-8859-1" A serif-10pt font is used, but the encoding option is ignored. See: https://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/xtc2001/paper/ (Table 1) But: https://motif.ics.com/forum/how-use-xmnfontencoding-antialiased-fonts Motif+XFT (needs UTF-8) <--> NEdit (no UTF-8)! Markus
