[developers] [spr30362] bug using climxm

[Ben Waldron]

Hi Andreas -

Thanks for this email. Unfortunately, the patch is not working for us:

1. I compile and load the patch, then load/compile our application
2. I open the "Parse Sentence" window. This is the window in which it 
should be possible to enter text for the sentence to be parsed. Upon 
opening this window I receive the following message:

Warning: Missing charsets: ISO10646-1, GB2312.1980-0, KSC5601.1987-0, 
creating
         fontset for
         
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-jisx0201.1976-0,-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-140-jisx0208.1983-0,-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-56-iso8859-1,

3. I am able to enter non-latin characters if I run a command in the 
Emacs Lisp buffer. Eg.

(do-parse-tty "læreren kommer på lørdag")

4. I try to paste the following into the Parse Sentence window:

læreren kommer på lørdag

All that appears in the window is a single lower case 'l'. I receive the 
following messages:

Warning: Xt:
    Name: xmTextField
    Class: XmTextField
    Character '\346' not supported in font.  Discarded.

Warning: Xt:
    Name: xmTextField
    Class: XmTextField
    Character '\345' not supported in font.  Discarded.

Warning: Xt:
    Name: xmTextField
    Class: XmTextField
    Character '\370' not supported in font.  Discarded.

HOWEVER when I click OK to send the contents of this window to our 
application the full text "læreren kommer på lørdag" is sent. The parse 
window for this sentence appears. This window displays correctly (the 
characters æåø are visible) except for the title. In the title "lreren 
kommer p lrdag" these non-latin characters are missing.

5. I open the Parse Sentence window again. I again receive the above 
'Character ... nor supported' messages. I try to type the following 
directly into the Parse Sentence window:

læreren kommer

The 'æ' character is not displayed (only "lreren kommer"). I click OK 
and receive the following message:

Warning: Xt:
    Name: xmTextField
    Class: XmTextField
    Character '\346' not supported in font.  Discarded.

The input received by our application is "lreren kommeræ".


The initial locale when I start the Lisp is normally.

CL-USER(2): excl:*locale*
#<locale "C" [:LATIN1-BASE] @ #x441b482a>

This is later reset to the following by our application:

LKB(6): excl:*locale*
#<locale "C" [:UTF8-BASE] @ #x44f2cc5a>

However I get the same behaviour (described above) no matter whether the 
locale is set to "C" [:UTF8-BASE] after loading out application, before 
loading our application, or at Lisp startup (via the -locale 
command-line argument). I'm running Ubuntu Dapper linux.

Thanks for the help,
- Ben

afuchs at franz.com wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I've been working on spr30362 (problems when entering non-ascii text
> into text fields). I think I have come up with a fix that allows me to
> enter at least german umlauts, cyrillic, and japanese (Kanji, I
> believe) characters into text fields in a UTF-8 locale. Other
> characters (norwegian, spanish, ...) should work, too.
>
> As this spr is related to spr30570, characters from Korean encodings
> won't work yet. I'm working on this SPR, too.
>
> To test the fix, please compile & load the attached file before
> running your application.
>
>   
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Regards, Andreas.