Re: strange special character bug?
[email protected] (Kevin Kenny)
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| Organization | Advanced Computing Technologies, GE Global Research Center |
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I think there are two issues here. The first is that Tk is taking a long time - about half a minute on my Solaris box - to comb through the X fonts trying to find one that contains the nonexistent character \ufffc. I'm not sure that's immediately fixable - the font substitution mechanism tries to fall back gracefully, and there can be a *lot* of fonts to search. The second is one that I've seen only on the Tcl/Tk supplied with Red Hat systems. Someone at Red Hat gratuitously decided that Tcl_UniChar should be 32 bits rather than 16, and made the change in the released build. Alas, the change was not thoroughly tested, and led to atrocious memory leaks. I would surmise that at least one of them is in the font substitution subsystem. Installing ActiveTcl or building Tcl/Tk from source should cure the problem, if that indeed is the explanation. -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin KENNY GE Corporate Research & Development [email protected] P. O. Box 8, Bldg. K-1, Rm. 5B36A Schenectady, New York 12301-0008 USA