Re: xterm and UTF8

2003-02-20 Thread Gerd Knorr
Thomas Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You can specify "en_US.UTF-8" as your locale. Which implies to me that > > xterm can recognize, from its environment, the encoding, and act > > accordingly. > > Hope you aren't using the locale standard 'Variation' variable for > that; in most europe

Re: xterm and UTF8

2003-02-20 Thread Gerd Knorr
Thomas Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not true; the locale is nothing more then a pointer to the i18n and l10n > specific for that person using the computer. > Naturally the l10n implies certain things like currency, date format etc. > The nl_NL@EURO has a variant to change one aspect of the

Re: xterm and UTF8

2003-02-20 Thread Gerd Knorr
"Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >And, yes, of course xterm should start up in utf-8 mode if the locale > >encoding is UTF-8. > > Thanks, that was my original conclusion also. I had just > wondered why it doesn't. Just an xterm bug I guess. Recent xterm versions do exactly that.

Re: xterm and UTF8

2003-02-20 Thread Gerd Knorr
Thomas Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering how xterm should handle different shells (using screen for > example). The perfect-world-solution would be to ask the bash its env-var > at every printf, but that may prove to not really be feasable.. xterm can be switched from and to utf

Re: Debugging in RH8?

2003-02-27 Thread Gerd Knorr
Paul Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a record of one patch from Gerd Knorr (then > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) which was the "PPC port", Still reading here :) Merging this stuff into fsf gdb is fine with me. Gerd ___ Dev

X-Server segfault

2003-03-27 Thread Gerd Knorr
Hi, The X-Server crashes with a segfault due to a NULL pointer dereference, perfectly reproducable with a certain X client (mtt -- motif teletext decoder). Stacktrace below. Setting Option "no_accel" workarounds this. Hardware is a i386 machine with a Matrox G200. Anyone has a quick idea wha

Re: X-Server segfault

2003-03-28 Thread Gerd Knorr
>I believe this can only happen if your font render is broken. > These are fixed fonts. It should be impossible that there is no > data in those pointers. > >Is this recent source code? Yes. static server build from yesterdays cvsup. > There have been bugs of this sort > fixed in the

Re: X-Server segfault

2003-03-28 Thread Gerd Knorr
> > There have been bugs of this sort > > fixed in the font renderers not long before 4.3. Though maybe > > more exist. If this is easily reproducible I suspect you'll > > find that it only happens with the freetype or xtt renders. > > It likely is the bitmap renderer, but I'll try without freet

Re: X-Server segfault

2003-03-28 Thread Gerd Knorr
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:12:33AM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > It likely is the bitmap renderer, but I'll try without freetype. > > Font data comes from the fontserver. More gdb debugging: When I disable the font server and let XFree86 render the fonts instead it works j