Subject: Re: PATCH: Redhat 7.0 compile fixes for very latest CJK.
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 00:51:52 CST
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
> No, 'char' is treated as 'signed char' per ANSI C standard. So (unsigned
> char) cast was necessary.
Thanks for the clue. The high order bit was propagated into the second
byte.
>
> > 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?
>
Yes it did. I should have told you sooner but you seemed to have enough
other things to do.
Also your next-cjk.patch slipped in another call to
iconv( blah, (const **)&inptr,....
gcc 2.96.* with RH 7.0 does not like this. You need
iconv(blah, const_cast<char **>(&inptr),...
Cheers
Martin
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