Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Re: [I18n]Bidi on mlterm

[Araki K. <j00...@ip...>]

	Hi,

	Subject: Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Re: [I18n]Bidi on mlterm
	From: Noah Levitt <nl...@co...>
	Message-ID: <200...@co...>
	Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:00:40 -0500

> I checked mlterm out of cvs a couple of hours ago, and I'm
> having crash and other problems with bidi and with utf8
> generally, even after applying your patch. I'm using linux
> 2.4.8 and xfree86 3.3.6. When I start mlterm
> $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 mlterm
> I get a blank window. The blank window happens with or
> without bidi. I open mlconfig and set the font size to 14
> (it starts at 17), and then it crashes:
>
(snip)
>
> On the other hand, if I specify the font size when I start
> mlterm:
> $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 mlterm --fsrange=14-14
> then the window opens and I see a prompt. When I press a
> key, it crashes:
(snip)

        Thanks a lot , but I have completely no idea why it happens:(

        Well , would you tell me fribidi version you use , ./configure options
        you build mlterm with , and show me your ~/.mlterm/main , ~/.mlterm/font ?

        At my hand,
        
        $ LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 mlterm -w 20 -bi
        
        works fine with -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1
        font on NetBSD 1.5 Y current and XFree86 4.1.0.

> When I run mlterm with bidi disabled, it works, but it seems
> to refuse to use the fonts I specify in ~/.mlterm/font.
> So, I copied those fonts to their own directory and tried this:
>
> $ ls -l
> -rw-r--r--    1 nlevitt  nlevitt    784156 Dec  9 22:37 unifontd.pcf.gz
> -rw-r--r--    1 nlevitt  nlevitt     74014 Dec  9 22:37 unifonts.pcf.gz
> $ mkfontdir
> $ cat fonts.dir 
> 2
> unifontd.pcf.gz -gnu-fixed-medium-r-normal-f-16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
> unifonts.pcf.gz -gnu-fixed-medium-r-normal-h-8-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
> $ xset fp $PWD
> $ xset fp rehash
> $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 mlterm --bi=false
> a font for displaying us ascii chars is not found.
>
> This is dvdeug's version of unifont, which I have used
> successfully with xterm-utf8. What's wrong here?

         Default font size range is 10 - 24 , and if you want to use 8 dot font ,
         please do something like

         $ mlterm -km utf8 -w 8 -fsrange=8-24

         10 - 24 seems so narrow that I'll set 6 - 30 as font size range by default.

         BTW , I didn't know such XLFD exist as

         -gnu-fixed-medium-r-normal-f-16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
                                    ^^^^
         -gnu-fixed-medium-r-normal-h-8-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
                                    ^^^
         
         uum ... "f-16" and "h-8" seems somewhat strange and designed only for xterm ,
         but is it preferable to support these styles ? > Kubota san

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