Re: display UTF-8 characters

[Eric Wasylishen]

Hi,

Thanks for the info, looks like those are the latest releases of gui/back and 
you're using the recommended backend (cairo), which is good. AFAIK it should be 
using fontconfig to find system fonts and "mknfonts" will not have any effect. 
As well, we use fontconfig to automatically find fallback fonts, so setting a 
particular font with "defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSFont "DejaVu Sans"" 
should not be necessary.

Couple more questions:

- Is it that typing Š, š, ė doesn't work, or are these strings coming from a 
calendar server and don't show up? Do you get "glyph not found" boxes or 
nothing shows up? Could you post a screenshot?
- Could you give the "Ink" application a try (in the gnustep-examples package) 
and see if you can copy and paste Š, š, ė from a non-GNUstep application into 
Ink?

If you have time, it would be helpful if you could try uninstalling the gnustep 
packages and installing gnustep from svn.

Thanks,
Eric

On 2013-09-21, at 8:40 AM, Nerijus Baliunas <nerijus@users.sourceforge.net> 
wrote:

> Fedora 19, distro gnustep packages:
> gnustep-back-0.23.0-1.fc19.x86_64
> gnustep-base-1.24.4-7.fc19.x86_64
> gnustep-base-devel-1.24.4-7.fc19.x86_64
> gnustep-base-libs-1.24.4-7.fc19.x86_64
> gnustep-filesystem-2.6.5-1.fc19.x86_64
> gnustep-gui-0.23.1-1.fc19.x86_64
> gnustep-gui-devel-0.23.1-1.fc19.x86_64
> gnustep-gui-libs-0.23.1-1.fc19.x86_64
> gnustep-make-2.6.5-1.fc19.x86_64
> 
> I don't see Š, š, ė characters in SimpleAgenda for example.
> I tried the following:
> 
> cd /usr/lib64/GNUstep/Fonts
> mknfonts /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSFont "DejaVu Sans"
> 
> didn't help. Then tried to set a few different fonts with SystemPreferences 
> app.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nerijus
> 
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:23:20 +0200 Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> What platform are you running on? If you built GNUstep yourself, which 
>> backend did you compile with? Which characters are you having trouble with? 
>> How are you testing support for the characters?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Ivan Vučica
>> via phone
>> 
>>> On 21 Sep 2013, at 16:20, Nerijus Baliunas <nerijus@users.sourceforge.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> how do I display UTF-8 characters in gnustep app (SimpleAgenda in my case)?
>>> Is it enough to set font with SystemPreferences app? Should I make font 
>>> before
>>> with mknfonts? My locale is LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8.
> 
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