Subject: Re: PATCH: Redhat 7.0 compile fixes for very latest CJK.
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 00:24:01 CST
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >
> > I've put a fix here:
> > http://www.hippo.ru/~hvv/abiword/next-cjk-patch.diff
> >
> > It should be applied over AW patched with sam's or mine version of CJK patch.
> >
> > Martin, please look at 2 last hunks of that patch. They fix the pieces it
> > didn't work.
> > Other hunks are to make lists' bullets working with single-byte non-latin1
> > languages like russian.
> >
>
> Ah I see. Looks like the straight cast to UT_UCSChar was not quite working
> in the List dialog. Maybe some high bits were set?
No, 'char' is treated as 'signed char' per ANSI C standard. So (unsigned
char) cast was necessary.
> I've applied the patch to a new tree merged with Dom's new gnome-print.
> It compiles and builds without problems on RH 6.2 in unix. I haven't
> tried a gnome build yet coz I gotta get the latest gnome-print. Now the
> Lists dialog and the symbols inserted into frame look correct but printing
> the symbols doesn't work. I get some strange symbol instead. When I used
> "Insert Symbol" to insert "Dingbats" fonts into the text they appeared OK
> on the screen but upon printing looking like Chinese characters.
>
> The old abi did this too.
OK, I'll look into it and it seems it would be easy to fix it.
measureUnremappedChar is guilty.
But did this problem exist between my non-latin1 support patch?
> I've made a patch with my RH 7 fixes, your latest patch against a current
> abi (including Doms gnome-print).
>
> Sam can you test this on your Freebsd machine. I think this is almost
> ready to go into CVS. Once there it will be easier to fix things.
>
> It appears to fix a number of problems on RedHat 7.0 at the very least!
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
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