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Bug#264017: marked as done (xfonts-base: don't hard-code iso8859-1 in short aliases, eg "fixed")

Your message dated Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:37:12 +0200
with message-id <461F7978.2050502@ens-lyon.org>
and subject line Bug#264016: fvwm: FvwmForm uses bad fonts in utf-8 locale
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Package: xfonts-base
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
Severity: wishlist

The traditional short font aliases such as "fixed" hard-code the iso8859-1
encoding.  Thus, applications that use these aliases don't work in non
iso-8859-1 locales.  If the aliases were changed to use a * for the
encoding, they would be useful in these locales.

I realize there may be tradition or robustness rationales for leaving the
encoding hard-coded, so I understand if you cannot take this suggestion.

Andrew

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages xfonts-base depends on:
ii  xutils                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System utility programs

-- no debconf information

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Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:49:40AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
>   
>> About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding
>> FvwmForm using bad fonts in utf8 locale. Do you still experience this
>> problem today?
>>     
>
> No.  It seems that fonts with the iso8859-1 encoding now display fine in
> a UTF-8 locale.  Perhaps it was only a bug in X that made it break
> before. 
>
> Andrew

Thanks, closing.

Brice

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