From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 3 14:17:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20150 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 14:17:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from glacier.wise.edt.ericsson.se (glacier-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [193.180.251.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20143 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 14:17:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.epa.ericsson.se (epa.epa.ericsson.se [146.11.8.1]) by glacier.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.7.5/8.7.3/glacier-0.9) with ESMTP id AAA17670; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 00:17:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from brpc795.epa.ericsson.se (brpc795.epa.ericsson.se [146.11.13.2]) by mailhost.epa.ericsson.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA18349; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:17:05 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <33453785.273B@epa.ericsson.se> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 09:16:53 -0800 From: Mark Hannon Organization: Ericsson Australia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org CC: "Hannon, Mark (seeware)" Subject: Locale problems with CDE/FreeBSD !Linux References: <199704032101.HAA01341@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, I have been having some more problems with the Xinside CDE implementation. As is their practice, the technical support department have been unresponsive. I received a reply this morning from Thomas Roell that they were looking at my problem but didn't think they could fix it. So, maybe someone on the lists can give me some clues.... FreeBSD-2.2-RELEASE (with sgid patch to get dtmail working) | FreeBSD-2.1.7 Locale set from dtlogin is en_AU | sv_SE. Swedish keyboard installed. LANG is set to en_AU by the login program. My basic problem is that I cannot enter swedish characters ÅÅÖ in the dtmail compose window. The same problem in the dtpad editor. I can however read emails with these characters & can even paste the characters into dtmail. The dtterm terminal emulator running tcsh allows me to enter the characters. Xemacs allows their input. The problem is the same under both the swedish (sv_SE) and english (en_AU) locales. If I try the default 'C' locale then dtmail does not even printout the swedish characters in received mails. I even removed my FreeBSD partition a couple of weekends ago, installed a Redhat Linux distribution and CDE on top of it. In that configuration it was possible to input the swedish characters! It seemed like a rather drastic solution to muck around recompiling/reconfiging my machines to Linux so I reinstalled FreeBSD. Is anybody using Xig CDE and a non-ascii locale? Do you have any problems? Are there many CDE users out there? It seems that Xig are concentrating on the Linux market. I have seen a number of problems in CDE which seem to indicate very little testing on FreeBSD (dtaction core dumps, dthelpview core dumps, programs won't start from front panel, dtmail core dumps, dtappintegrate doesn't work etc.) Are there any other vendors thinking about a CDE port to FreeBSD? Can anybody give me any clues where to look further? Regards/Mark > > From mark Sun Feb 9 16:44:44 1997 > > To: support@xinside.com > > Subject: More language problems with CDE > > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=C.us-ascii > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Content-MD5: KUuqh1i7l2IBAtyKTB5pQg== > > Content-Length: 1138 > > > > > > Hi again, > > > > Running FreeBSD-2.2, and trying to use Swedish fonts & characters > > I am having some problems. > > > > I can type the Swedish national characters from dtterm but not > > from dtmail. dtmail also gives the following errors on startup: > > > > putte: {2} dtmail > > Warning: Cannot convert string > > "-dt-application-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-dtsymbol-*" to type > > FontStruct > > Warning: Cannot convert string "....Missing message #104" to type Short > > Warning: Cannot convert string "Ö" to type KeySym > > Warning: Cannot convert string "Ö" to type KeySym > > Warning: Cannot convert string "Å" to type KeySym > > Warning: Cannot convert string "ä" to type KeySym > > _DtXlateGetXlateEnv: Platform: FreeBSD; Execution Ver: 0; Compiled Ver: > > 210 > > Warning: Cannot convert string "....Missing message #103" to type Short > > Warning: Cannot convert string "Å" to type KeySym > > Warning: Cannot convert string "....Missing message #102" to type KeySym > > Warning: Cannot convert string "Å" to type KeySym > > Warning: Cannot convert string "Å" to type KeySym > > Warning: Cannot convert string "Å" to type KeySym > > > > I am using the Swedish locale. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Regards/Mark