Re: Bug#798004: xletters: Non-standard charset makes some characters untypeable and wrongly displayed.
Thanks for your report,
On 04/09/15 08:34 AM, chill3 wrote:
> I've installed xletters in Spanish, but, due to an incorrect charset probably
> on the translation, the characters on the upper half of the ASCII character
> table don't display correctly.
>
> For each character on that half, the program displayed two characters, so I
> suppose the translation table was encoded in UTF-8 but displayed as it was ANSI
> or another similar charset. Changing the font didn't work.
>
> The words come from /usr/share/dict/spanish at the 'wspanish' package. Please
> patch the program so it supports UTF-8 encoding.
>
> Thank you for your attention.
It would probably be better to replace Debian's upstream for xletters to
this Unicode-supporting fork than try to patch around this limitation:
http://www.msc.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~daerr/progs/xletters/
Meanwhile, perhaps you could try downloading and building it from source
to see if it works fine for Spanish and report your results on this bug.
Frankly, I haven't given any attention to this package in years, and it
should really be taken over by someone with a greater interest in
packaging software for young children. My youngest turns 14 this year so
is well beyond the age to find xletters interesting. I've CC'd debian-jr
& debian-edu lists to see if there's anyone there willing to pick it up.
If there are no takers, I'll formally orphan the package, as I do agree
Unicode support is badly needed, but that's more work than I'm willing
to put into it.
Ben
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