Olivier, have you seen this mail?
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:29:28PM +0100, John Latham wrote:
> FvwmTaskBar crashes, quietly without any trace, in 2.4.6 as shipped by Red Hat
> 7.3 (multi-byte is enabled) and also in 2.4.8 when compiled with multibyte
> option, but not otherwise.
>
> The task bar just refused to appear, and left no error message not even a core
> dump. Don't ask me how I figured out this was with the setting that caused the
> problem
>
> *FvwmTaskBarFont -*helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>
> and changing it to the following makes it work okay:
>
> *FvwmTaskBarFont -*helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
>
> I assume it was picking up some font encoding that FvwmTaskBar cannot handle
> -- does that make sense?
>
> This behaviour was still happening after I changed to POSIX locale (see
> previous message): it seems you need BOTH the posix locale and the iso8859-1
> to make it work in 2.4, if multi-byte is emabled.
>
> Similarly, FvwmPager was using the wrong font until I put the iso8859-1 spec
> on that too. At least it wasn't crashing!
>
> All this seems to work fine on 2.5.2, no need for locale change or iso8859-1
> specification.
>
> This all makes me think I could do with learning a *bit* more about X fonts
> and their relationships to locales. Can anyone suggest a good (implies
> short...) summary on the matter?
>
> Best wishes, John Latham
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Tue Sep 03 2002 - 18:13:30 BST