[Mlterm-dev-en] bug-report: xcore not being used by default, or even when specified

[Boruch B. <bor...@ya...>]

mlterm version 3.0.8; Debian Wheezy: bash v4.1.5

Hello y'all,

Earlier today, I installed your app from the Debian repository, and got it to properly display Hebrew character in bidi. I wanted to bring to your attention that the man page indicates that the default font rendering engine is xcore; However, when I invoked mlterm from a bash shell, mlterm would start in xft. I would have to use mlconfig to deselect xft.

EXAMPLE TEST PROCEDURE
======================
(from an xterm, running bash shell with a locale en_US.UTF8)
$ mlterm &
$ export LC_ALL="he_IL.UTF-8"; hcal; export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
(displays RTL, but with boxes instead of Hebrew characters)
(ctrl+right-click, select font window, xft is selected)
(deselect xft, apply changes and exit, Hebrew displays OK)
(alt+F4 to kill window, so now back in xterm/bash)
$ mlterm --type=xcore &
$ export LC_ALL="he_IL.UTF-8"; hcal; export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
(same as above, still xft)
$ mlterm --type=cairo &
$ export LC_ALL="he_IL.UTF-8"; hcal; export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
(mlconfig indicates cairo engine IS being used. That doesn't)
(help with Hebrew, but that's not the bug I'm reporting)
(alt+F4 to kill window, so now back in xterm/bash)


EXAMPLE TEST PROCEDURE
======================
This test procedure just asks you to note that mlconfig
indicates that no font is selected by default, and that
when one is manually selected, Hebrew <WILL> display properly
<EVEN> when using the xft engine
$ mlterm &
$ export LC_ALL="he_IL.UTF-8"; hcal; export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
(displays RTL, but with boxes instead of Hebrew characters)
(ctrl+right-click, select font window, xft is selected)
(instead of deselecting xft, note that the font selected is)
(blank, from family default. Change it to a font with Hebrew)
(support, apply changes and Hebrew displays properly)