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

[Anders L. <and...@gm...>]

lör 2008-10-11 klockan 08:06 +0100 skrev Nick Warne:
> 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

I noticed that the Swedish configure.lang is not in utf-8 but in
'Non-ISO extended-ASCII'. Running the config menu now just gives me a
question mark in a circle where the Swedish characters should be (And
settings are still misaligned).
I created a new configure.lang where I just wrote down the menu text and
saved it in utf-8. Then all Swedish characters displayed correctly (But
again, things are still misaligned). 

I'm starting to think maybe it's not worth spending too much time with
this issue. It's not like it breaks anything and we're going to replace
the translation system anyway. Or will this issue still appear when we
gettextifies BashBurn? Thoughts?


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Anders Lindén
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