OK, Dan, thanks! Would the FVWM organization like to file this
bug with Sun? Ya'll may get a better response than me. If not,
I'll file a bug and I'll send ya'll the bug number.
Let me know,
Dan Espen wrote:
>
> Keith Spainhour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Ah!!! I found it!!
> >
> > I need to do the following:
> >
> > unsetenv LANG
> > unsetenv LC_CTYPE
> >
> > Then it works!!!
> >
> > So, where do we go from here? Do I need to persue this with Sun
> > or would you guys be a better choice?
> >
> > Are we sure this is a Java issue?
>
> I've done some more testing.
> I'm using Solaris 8.
>
> I used "xprop" to look at the property WM_NAME which is where the title
> comes from.
>
> Without LANG set, Java sets WM_NAME like this:
> WM_NAME(COMPOUND_TEXT) = 0x54, 0x68, 0x69, 0x73, ...
>
> With LANG set, Java sets WM_NAME like this:
> WM_NAME(COMPOUND_TEXT) = 0x1b, 0x28, 0x42, 0x54, ...
>
> The 0x54 is the first character of the windows title, an uppercase T.
>
> So with LANG set, the characters "0x1b, 0x28, 0x42," ("Esc ( B") are
> added to the window title.
>
> If Fvwm is compiled with multibyte support, that string is passed thru
> XmbTextPropertyToTextList() which removes the "Esc ( B" prefix.
>
> I think this should be persued with Sun. So far I see 2 issues:
>
> I don't see why fvwm should need to support Multibyte characters when
> the language is explicitly set to en_US, or fr_CA, neither of these
> languages are multibyte.
>
> I don't think its correct for Java to be setting the text property to
> COMPOUND_TEXT when LANG isn't set. Normally the property on a title
> would be STRING.
>
> > Dan Espen wrote:
> > >
> > > Keith Spainhour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > This is my fault. I sent you the wrong test source code. I'm running
> > > > a number of test cases for Sun. Anyway attached is the correct source
> > > > code that produced the image listed in my previous email.
> > >
> > > Whats your $LANG setting?
> > >
> > > If I "unset LANG", the title is fine.
> > > If I set it to "fr_CA", or even "en_US" I see the problem.
> > >
> > > Why does Java think that "en_US" needs a multi-byte title?
> > >
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> >
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