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Bug#264016: marked as done (fvwm: FvwmForm uses bad fonts in utf-8 locale)

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: fvwm
Version: 2.5.10-10
Severity: minor

I just started using the en_US.UTF-8 locale and ran into a small issue with
fvwm.  My understanding is when specifying traditional X fonts, one should
put a * in the encoding field, and the system will pick the correctly
encoded font.  In particular, you should not use the short aliases such as
"fixed", which hard-code the iso8859-1 encoding.  It seems that FvwmForm
hard-codes fixed for its fonts, so that lots of "null" characters showed up
in forms.  I added the lines 

    *FvwmFormDefault: Font -*-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*
    *FvwmFormDefault: InputFont -*-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*
    *FvwmFormDefault: ButtonFont -*-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*
    *FvwmFormDefault: TimeoutFont -*-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*

to my .fvwm2rc, and the fonts looked right.  If my understanding is correct,
I suggest that the default in FvwmForm be changed, as well as any other
hard-coded encodings, including the short aliases.

An alternate view is that the short aliases should use a * encoding, so that
they work in all locales.  If you think this is the case, I can suggest this
to the xfonts-base maintainer.

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 fvwm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfontconfig1            2.2.3-1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.7-2.1      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libfribidi0               0.10.4-3       Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libglib1.2                1.2.10-9       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk1.2                 1.2.10-17      The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.4-4          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.5.0-7      PNG library - runtime
ii  libreadline4              4.3-11         GNU readline and history libraries
ii  librplay3                 3.3.2-8        Shared libraries for the rplay net
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstroke0                0.5.1-4        support for mouse strokes like tho
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2                   2.1.2-6        FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxpm4                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X pixmap library
ii  libxrender1               0.8.3-7        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-5    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  fvwm/upgrade/pre_2.5.8: false

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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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