Re: FVWM: fvwm i18n question

From: Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis_at_free.fr>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 08:48:41 +0200

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:04:40PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On [Thu, 4 Jul 2002 16:16:49 +0200], Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis_at_free.fr> wrote:
> >> > Seems you run FreeBSD, this is maybe the reason of
> >> > the problem. I think that BSD libc do not has iconv. Do you have
> >> > (gnu) libiconv installed on your machine? (if not install it and
> >> > recompile fvwm, maybe configure should require an iconv). What
> >> > is the version of XFree?
> >>
> >> I thought libiconv is always required in 2.5.2.
> >>
> >
> > I think that fvwm-2.5.2 compiles and works without any iconv
> > (I never test this).
>
> This is indeed my problem. I had --with-iconv-include instead of
> --with-iconv-includes, and that made a huge difference.
>
> GB fonts works fine now,

fine. We should be more clear about iconv detection.

> but not big5 fonts. Fvwm crashes when I try to
> specify any Big5 font. Anyone else getting this?
>

This is fixed now (in the current cvs).

But, again the good way to display CJK is either:

- Use the appropriate locale and load font without specifying
the charset or with a charset which matches "the" locale charset.
- Or use iso10646-1 font (core or ttf) with the good set of
char and use StringEncoding=good_encoding when you a load font.

For example with Big5 (with a non "Big5 locale"), all ascii
characters will be replaced by a space (of course when fvwm
does not crash).

Regards, Olivier
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