Re: [Bashburn-info] Update on display problem.

[Nick W. <ni...@uk...>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:19:16 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:

> There are two programs that I'm using to look at the problem.
> 
> xlsfonts # Used to display the list of all fonts
> xfd	# to display the characters in a font.
> 
> I took a look at a large font at random.
> 
> xfd -fn
> '-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-m-200-iso8859-9'
> 
> and it's clear that you can see all of the funny characters.
> 
> Then I started an xterm using that font.
> 
> xterm -font
> '-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-m-200-iso8859-9'
> 
> Then from that xterm, I run bashburn. I switch from English to
> Swedish and the problem still persists.
> 
> So, my question is this: Why do we think that the encoding we're
> using is even correct in the first place?
> 
> If someone can show me a program that's written in anything that
> displays these characters then I can get this solved.

I still think the Sewdish lang files have extraenous control chars in
it.

Consider this:

echo "Ångra Ändringar"

(Anders: I guess that is an 'Ä' and not a 'Ã' as seen in the file?)

Works fine.  So does changing these in Swedish lang file.

Nick
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