[developers] unicode in lui window titles

[Stephan Oepen]

hi joshua,

not sure the expert is at their desk already, but i doubt this problem
originates on the lisp side.  i rather suspect that the routines to
set the window title in LUI may predate its update to full unicode
support (using the pango library).

to aid debugging, there should be a file ‘yzlui.debug.jcrowgey’ (or
the like), probably in your ‘/tmp/’ directory.  could you email that
file

it should contain the full commands sent from the LKB to LUI and
should be encoded in UTF-8.  the string transmitted as the window
title occurs towards the end of the ‘tree’ command, for example.

best, oe



On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:05 PM, Joshua Crowgey <jcrowgey at uw.edu> wrote:
> Hello developers,
>
> I find that when I look at a parse result using LUI and LKB, the
> characters used in the tree display and in the semantics (in a Simple
> MRS display) look great, but the window-title leaves a bit to be desired.
>
> Of course, it's not a very big deal since the important part is the
> content of the window, not its title, but if there's some easy fix that
> you all may know of, I would be happy to hear about it.
>
> I attach three screenshots as an example.  In one, I'm showing the the
> top of a terminal emulator which has a pwd that's a Lushootseed
> sentence.  This is just to show that generally, the window titles on my
> system look fine even with Unicode (I'm using i3wm on debian --- I don't
> know if that's relevant).  Then, the other two show a parse result.  You
> can see that the text in the tree nodes and in the semantic relations is
> fine, but the window title has a lot of tofu.
>
> I'm not skilled enough with LISP to fix this myself in any reasonable
> amount of time, so I thought I'd ask the experts.
>
> Tyty!
>
> --
> Joshua Crowgey
>