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

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

I'm using emacs on Gentoo and Ubuntu.

2008/10/11, Nick Warne <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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