Re: [cxterm-devel] fonts screwed up

[Jun S. <js...@ju...>]

Hi, Hin-Tak,

Thanks a lot for your reply.

I found more about the problem now.  Since I am not familiar
with X font / Chinese at all, I am posting it here and hopeful
you can tell me what is wrong.

1. the problem shows up initially with mutt, an email client.  BTW, I notice 
   that mail has a header "X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 
   8bit by gateway.junsun.net id".  Not sure if it matters.

2. If I save the email, and then do 'cat' or tail of the email file,
   Chinese shows up just fine!

3. If I use 'less' to show the email file, fonts get screwed up, in
   a different way from how mutt screws it up.

4. I tried to add xterm to /etc/termcap and do "tic" by following 
   READM.termcap.  After I have done "tic", mutt refues to start
   and says 

Your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen or position the cursor.

I have little clue as to what might wrong.  Can you shed some lights?

Jun

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:45:41AM +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> As I previously say - there is no significant change between 5.2.2
> and 5.2.3 (and CVS) other than fixing some compiler warnings.
> 
> There is a hell lot of difference between Redhat 6.2 and Redhat 9
> regarding font management, just as the Xfree86 terminfo/termcap
> problem I mentioned. Redhat 9 uses a separate font server, rather
> than have static font directories like RH 6.2.
> 
> I suspect the RH 9 font server doesn't work all the time, or
> reliably. You could go back to static font directories, or have
> font directories in addition to font server, by modifying the
> "FontPath" entries in /etc/X11/XF86Config. "man 5 XF86Config"
> for details, I think.
> 
> Please note that cxterm is no longer in active development (the
> sourceforge project is "unofficial" and the original authors
> are not here)- it has worked almost as it was in 1995, so any
> breakage is usually due to changes elsewhere...)
> 
> 
> Jun Sun wrote:
> >Just when I was happy, all of a sudden fonts are all screwed up.
> >Instead of nice Chinese sentences, only some random senseless characters
> >are displayed in place.
> >
> >And I don't even recall what I changed to cause this.  I rebuilt
> >cxterm with latest CVS, and still have the same results.
> >
> >Does anybody have a clue what goes wrong here?
> >
> >Actually I had this problem when I upgrade from redhat 6.2 to redhat 9
> >while still using the old 5.2.2 release.  I thought I fixed the problem
> >by using the latest CVS source (actually it worked on that particular
> >day, I swear)
> >
> >Strange.
> >
> >Jun
> >
> >
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