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

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

> 
> 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/
> >
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:02:11 +0200
> "Anders Lindén" <and...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I'm using emacs on Gentoo and Ubuntu.

It could be a bash issue - have a read of this:

http://www.divvun.no/doc/tools/utf-8-setup.html

Nick
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