[developers] [spr30362] bug using climxm

[Berthold Crysmann]

Andreas Fuchs wrote:
> On 2006-09-13, Ben Waldron <bmw20 at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Andreas -
>>     
>
> Hi Ben,
>
>   
>> Thanks for this email. Unfortunately, the patch is not working for
>> us:
>>     
>
> I think I now have a fix that should do the right thing if
> excl:*locale* is rebound. To test it, replace the old patch.lisp with
> the attached file, and compile & load the file before starting your
> application.
>
>   
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>
>
> This patch outputs a bit of debug information when going through
> the locale possibilities on application startup.
>
> There is one important thing to note, though: Due to an XT limitation,
> the application must set or bind excl:*locale* to the correct value
> before the first application frame is created and the port is
> initialized.
>
> Regards, Andreas.
>   
Dear ,

I have tried this new patch but, unfortunately, the behaviour has not 
changed (apart from an error message).
This is what I did:

Start clim with C.UTF-8 locale

/usr/local/acl80/bclim -locale C.UTF-8

My .clinit.cl looks like this:
---8<-----
(in-package "COMMON-LISP-USER")

(system:resize-areas :new (* 384 1024 1024) )

(setf (sys:gsgc-parameter :expansion-free-percent-new) 5)
(setf (sys:gsgc-parameter :expansion-free-percent-old) 5)
(setf (sys:gsgc-parameter :free-percent-new) 2)

(pushnew :psql *features*)
(pushnew :lkb *features*)

(load "/home/crysmann/patch.lisp")

(load "/home/crysmann/lkb/src/general/defsystem.lisp")
(load "/home/crysmann/lkb/src/general/loadup")

---8<----

I then compiled and ran our application.

Opening the relevant input widget (Parse input ...) I tried to enter a 
simple German sentence "Er schläft."

Problem 1: Keyboard input of "ä" (Compose+"+a) did not work at all 
(nothing inserted). (I checked this "adding" trailing Umlauts to other 
words.)
 
Problem 2: Pasting the string with the mouse (button 2) Only shows the 
characters to the left of the umlaut in the input widget and an error 
message:

"
Error: Error reading mb-vector from
         #<EXCL:BUFFER-INPUT-SIMPLE-STREAM pos 7 @ #x6daf746a>
"

Best,

Berthold Crysmann