Re: UTF-8 and Fluxbox

On Friday 06 October 2006 03:32, Renato Serodio wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm runninf the latest flux on Debian unstable. Now, I heard UTF
> support had been extended, so I'd like to ask whether something I'm
> experiencing is caused by misconfig, missing experimental patch or
> simply because it hasn't been implemented yet.
>
> I suppose the locale is important; mine is
>
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
>
> So, let's take firefox: point to http://ru.wikipedia.org, which
> declares charset=utf-8. Well, while firefox is able to render the
> fonts on its tab, the window bar made by fluxbox just shows a bunch
> of  squares. The same thing is true of other pages that declare the
> UTF charset, but not of those that declare ISO, such as
> http://www.ist.utl.pt

Are you sure that the font used in the title bar has the glyphs used in 
those pages?

>
> Now let's take XMMS. While playing tracks whose tag I encoded with
> the patched version of EasyTag (for proper UTF handling), or which I
> renamed using a Unicode-able terminal, I lose every character after
> an accent or such. In XMMS's playlist, the offending character is
> simply ommited. On the other hand, tags encoded by Amarok (I honestly
> have no idea which encoding is used), appear to render properly (as
> long no script other than extended latin is used).

This is bug in the XMMS and besides XMMS is dead.

> I'm a bit puzzled; would anyone care to comment?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Renato
>
>
>
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