One was Chinese, one was Korean. The guy who was using Korean said changing the font instead of using the system's worked. Do you think anything could be done about this? Should I have him open a Meld bug?
-Keegan On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Keegan Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > Just the tab contents are empty, the application window still comes up. > There's a screenshot at the bottom of > http://code.google.com/p/meld-installer/issues/detail?id=32. Ignore the > earlier comments and description; the reporting user re-used an older > unrelated issue. The new issue for this problem is > http://code.google.com/p/meld-installer/issues/detail?id=42. I'll post > your suggestion about not using the system font and trying some other fonts > there. > > -Keegan > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 31 December 2013 07:39, Keegan Witt <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Any suggestions for what they can try for getting some more >> information? I >> > had one of them try running with python instead of pythonw and the >> output he >> > got is below. It sounds from the message below that it might be an >> issue >> > with the font not having the glyphs to support the characters used by >> the >> > system locale. But if that were the case, you'd think only some >> characters >> > wouldn't be rendered. Sorry, I'm not familiar with how GTK handles >> > localization bindings. >> > >> > F:\lm\meld\meld-1.8.3\Meld>python\App\python.exe meld\bin\meld >> > F:\lm\meld\meld-1.8.3\Meld\meld\meld\meldwindow.py:226: PangoWarning: >> > couldn't l >> > oad font "瀹嬩綋 9", falling back to "Sans 9", expect ugly output. >> > self.widget.show() >> > F:\lm\meld\meld-1.8.3\Meld\meld\meld\meldwindow.py:226: PangoWarning: >> > couldn't l >> > oad font "瀹嬩綋 Not-Rotated 9", falling back to "Sans Not-Rotated 9", >> expect >> > ug >> > ly output. >> > self.widget.show() >> > F:\lm\meld\meld-1.8.3\Meld\meld\meld\meldwindow.py:641: Warning: >> > g_object_set_qd >> > ata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed >> > self.notebook.remove_page(page_num) >> > meld\bin\meld:167: GtkWarning: gdkdrawable-win32.c:2013 drawable is not >> a >> > pixmap >> > or window >> > gtk.main() >> > F:\lm\meld\meld-1.8.3\Meld\meld\meld\task.py:114: Warning: >> > g_object_set_qdata: a >> > ssertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed >> > ret = task() >> >> Oh hey cool... unicode font names... what could possibly go wrong? >> (I don't know that that's an actual problem, but certainly fonts >> failing to load would break stuff.) >> >> When you say 'empty comparison window', is there no UI at all, or is >> it just the individual tab UIs failing to load? >> >> I guess if Meld launches and they can get to a usable preferences >> dialog they could try unticking the 'use system font' preference and >> selecting fonts until something works? I'm not certain that that's the >> problem but it may explain the behaviour. I'd expect that to screw up >> file comparisons though; I don't think we use font settings in folder >> comparisons anywhere. >> >> As for the subsequent warnings, those probably started happening >> during GLib/GTK 2.x series bumps, either because we were doing broken >> things, because PyGTK had some maintenance hiccups, or because GLib >> broke ABI. I haven't managed to track down all of these warnings, and >> they generally seem to have no impact. >> >> cheers, >> Kai >> > >
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