On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:05:32PM -0400, Richard Lister wrote:
>
> Randy Schultz <schultz_at_sgi.com> wrote
> on Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:30:51 -0500 (CDT):
> >
> > Subject: FVWM: internal errors/blank menus
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I've just installed RH 9.0 on my system. Window managers like Gnome work
> > fine. Wanting to get back to fvwm, I've pulled down version 2.4.16 and
> > compiled it, no compile errors. Configure showed:
> > FVWM Configuration:
> >
> [...]
> >
> > When I fire up fvwm, whether with all defaults or with my own .fvwm2rc,
> > all windows fire up and work. However once fvwm is up and running any menu
> > I bring up is blank. The background is correctly set to whatever Background
> > is set to in .fvwm2rc but there's no text. The "hotspots" are there and
> > working properly, I just can't see what I'm clicking on.
>
>
> Randy, I had the same problem. In /etc/sysconfig/i18n change
>
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>
> to
>
> LANG="en_US"
>
> Something to do with unicode. Maybe someone here who knows about
> such things can explain why fvwm is having issues with UTF-8?
>
If you want to use an UTF-8 locale you should use fvwm-2.5.7.
fvwm-2.4.x is not UTF-8 ready (but maybe if you compile with
--enable-multibyte but I never try and I think that in this case
2.5.7 is more safe than 2.4.x). The internals errors come from
something that I am not sure to understand. The file
x_prefix/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE
contains a magic line
on_demand_loading True
which is totally undocumented and cause problems with GC. The reason
of this line (I think) is that the core X fonts are not really UTF-8
ready ... (Xft is ok for this). Someone can probably clarify this.
Note that using an UTF-8 locale can cause various pbs. E.g.,
with perl 5.8, programs which manipulate strings can be dramatically
slower. What happen with an UTF-8 xterm when you remote login
on a machine with a non UTF-8 locale? ...etc.
Again, someone else can surely gives better examples.
Regards, Olivier
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Received on Wed Jun 25 2003 - 14:49:47 BST