Re: Bug#308194: #308194: tuxpaint: cannot type in russian

[Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>]

Alexandra,

Thanks for testing.

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 00:17 +0300, Alexandra N. Kossovsky wrote:
> I've just tried CVS tuxpaint on the Sarge and Etch systems. I see the
> behaviour changed. Every time I type a Russian letter, I see a new letter
> on the screen, but it is not the Russian letter. It is ISO-8859-1 letter
> corresponding to the first byte of the unicode value.
> 
> I guess CVS tuxpaint should break ISO-8859-1 (non-ascii) users as well, 
> but I hope it is a step into the right direction :-)

John got back to me about this on the tuxpaint-devel list and said the
following:

        What version of SDL did you test this with? There is partial
        Unicode
        support on X with the SDL-1.2.9 release.
        
        There was a problem with Tux Paint, and there is/was a problem
        with SDL.
        
        The SDL Windows backend is fixed in CVS:
        https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39
        
        The SDL X11 backend currently only has partial unicode support.
        I'm
        helping work on it:
        https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130
        
        Here is a picture of Tux Paint in Russian on X, with the above
        patch
        (although this should mostly work with the SDL 1.2.9 Release
        version):
        http://www.johnnypops.demon.co.uk/tp-russian.png
        
        Does this look more like what we are after?
        
        Any help testing would be great.
        
        If you want a working text-tool you need Tux Paint from CVS, and
        SDL
        from CVS with the above patch (bug 130) if you are on X.
        
        With help from Sam Lantinga (Mr. SDL), there is a good chance of
        the
        next release of SDL-1.2.X having all this working,