Re: RC2 on Suse 9.3

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 27 November 2006 01:16 pm, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
> Jacques Le Bourlot a =E9crit :
> * libgd:
>    I had to manually create a link from libgd.so.2 to libgd.so in
> /usr/lib. It was not found by configure. Also gd was installed, but
> not gd-devel so that "make" crashed when looking for gd.h=20

This is telling you that you should have installed gd-devel.
=46orcing the build process to continue when a required package is
missing is not a good idea.

> > * Pango:
> >    SuSE comes with pango 1.10.2 and I could not find newer
> > packages. I compiled 1.10.4 and had no further problems at
> > configuration/compilation time. But...
> >
> > * Wxt:
> >    The terminal works (i.e. I get all the nice plots in the
> > window). However all texts are ridiculously small (size 1 point?)
> > and useless. I could not figure out why.
>
> It is precisely the problem I was trying to address when I added the
> restriction on pango not being 1.10.2.
> Here is the corresponding thread:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.gnuplot.devel/5319

The wxt terminal works just fine with libpango 1.10.0

I think the symptom of invisibly small font sizes comes from not
having properly initialized fontconfig.  I originally suffered from
the same problem, but installing and initializing fontconfig fixed it.


> > * UTF8:
> >   Results of "utf8.dem" are unreliable. May come from my fonts
> > installation (which I never really understood). More specifically,
> > I can not set encoding to "utf8"=20

It is not necessary to set encoding to utf8.
The "encoding" tells how to interpret 1-byte characters.
utf8 uses multibyte characters *instead* of using the 1-byte
representations.
=20
> > and could not find how to get such characters as "=E9", "=E0", etc...

=E9 is Unicode code point 00E9
=E0 is Unicode code point 00E0

If your locate is set to fr_FR.UTF-8, then when you type =E0 on the
keyboard it generates a two-byte utf-8 sequence that represents that
Unicode code point.  This is *different* than the 1-byte representation
used by iso_8859_15.  You cannot mix them.  You must pick one or the
other (preferably utf-8).

If you are using KDE, a convenient tool to explore this is kcharselect. =20
I'm sure some equivalent tool must exist on other desktops.

=2D-=20
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA