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

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

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:28:50 +0200
Anders Lindén <and...@gm...> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 

OK, what editor do you use - in fact, what distro do you use?

Could it be some mangling on saving the file?

I use Nano BTW -> http://www.nano-editor.org/

Nick
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