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Date: | Wed, 20 May 2009 15:54:45 +0100 |
From: | Jon TURNEY <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk> |
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Subject: | Re: iconv: Xft UTF-8 rendering |
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Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > I'm having some issues with iconv, Xft, and UTF-8 rendering. Could you > please help me look into this: > > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10122 > > The easiest of those to reproduce is probably blackbox: > > http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/x11/blackbox/ > > If you omit 0.70.1-disable-unicode-fonts.patch, build blackbox, and run > it within a standard X display (not multiwindow), you'll see what I > mean; you don't have to install it to run it for this purpose. > > Right now, I want to figure out if the problem is with Cygwin, iconv, > libXft, or these packages (although I doubt the latter). Any assistance > you can provide would be appreciated. I think iconv is exonerated. This seems to be breakage due to a sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 assumption in blackbox. The file in question has a trolltech copyright on it so it wouldn't surprise me if the same code turns up in Qt :-) I've an attached an example patch to fix it in bugzilla. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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