January 2002 - openSUSE M17n - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Bug fix for SuSE 7.3: locale surprisingly resetted to the system default
by Mike Fabian 20 Jan '02

20 Jan '02

On SuSE Linux 7.3 the locale is is sometimes surprisingly resetted to the system default values. This is a bug in /etc/profile reintroduced in SuSE Linux 7.3: Have a look at the file /etc/profile and search for the following piece of code: # # Source the files generated by SuSEconfig # if test -z "$_SUSECONFIG_PROFILE" ; then # read only once readonly _SUSECONFIG_PROFILE=true test -e /etc/SuSEconfig/profile && . /etc/SuSEconfig/profile fi After the line readonly _SUSECONFIG_PROFILE=true there should be another line export _SUSECONFIG_PROFILE which was forgotten. The intention of this piece of code is to avoid reading /etc/SuSEconfig/profile more than once. For example, if you have RC_LANG="en_US" set in /etc/rc.config.d/ lang.rc.config it should nevertheless be possible to start a Chinese KDE session with the command: ~$ LANG=zh_TW.Big5 WINDOWMANAGER=kde startx But a command used during the start of KDE, /opt/kde2/bin/startkde is a login shell, it contains #!/bin/bash --login as the first line. Therefore it reads /etc/profile again, which will read /etc/ SuSEconfig/profile again if _SUSECONFIG_PROFILE is exported and therefore unset. /etc/ SuSEconfig/profile then resets LANG to en_US, i.e. KDE will be started in the wrong locale. Sourcing /etc/SuSEconfig/profile again and again in each login shell causes the problem that the locale changes back to the default system locale for each login shell. The user doesn't know that the locale has been changed behind his back and just wonders why for example Chinese input doesn't work in applications started via the KDE menus or via Alt-F2 although KDE was started with the above command line. Starting the KDE terminal konsole via Alt-F2 or via clicking on the terminal icon in the KDE taskbar and then calling the locale command in the terminal which opens will reveal that the locale has been changed during the start of KDE. So please change /etc/profile as explained above to fix this. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

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Bug fix: gtk programs don't work with zh_TW.Big5 locale in SuSE Linux 7.3
by Mike Fabian 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

(Sorry for the repost, the program use to manage this list 'ezmlm' strips the first boundary of a multipart message if the first part contains only ASCII. This may make my previous message unreadable for some of you). There is a bug in the gtk package contained in SuSE Linux 7.2 which caused problems for all programs linked against gtk when running in a zh_TW.Big5 locale. For example 'gedit' or 'gvim' showed garbage in the menus instead of traditonal Chinese. A gb2312 font (i.e. a simplified Chinese font) was used instead of a Big5 font. SuSE Linux 7.3 contains a gtk.rpm with that bug, SuSE Linux 7.2 had an older version without that bug. I believe I have found the problem and have uploaded fixed gtk-packages to ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.3-i386/gtk-1.2.10-209.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.3-i386/gtk-devel-1.2.10-209.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.3-ppc/gtk-1.2.10-107.ppc.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.3-ppc/gtk-devel-1.2.10-107.ppc.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.3-src/gtk-1.2.10-209.src.rpm Everybody who has problems with gtk programs not showing traditional Chinese menus correctly should try to update to these new packages, then it should work. For the curious among you, the patch which fixes the problem is attached. It makes a local copy of the return value of setlocale(), which can then be modified without problems. Previously, the return value of setlocale was directly modified, changing it from 'zh_TW.Big5' to 'zh' which had the result that XCreateFontSet did load a gb2312 font later. Modifying the return value of setlocale() is not allowed according to the glibc info pages: glibc-info> You should not modify the string returned by `setlocale'. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

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Bug fix: gtk programs don't work with zh_TW.Big5 locale in SuSE Linux 7.3
by Mike Fabian 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

It makes a local copy of the return value of setlocale(), which can then be modified without problems. Previously, the return value of setlocale was directly modified, changing it from 'zh_TW.Big5' to 'zh' which had the result that XCreateFontSet did load a gb2312 font later. Modifying the return value of setlocale() is not allowed according to the glibc info pages: glibc-info> You should not modify the string returned by `setlocale'. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

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ibmccr (Linux) used as input to other Linux programs.
by David Fong 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Dear m17n group! Are there any multilingual editors which can accept GuoBiao outputted from another program? In particular, the program 'free' versionof ibmccr (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/reqs/chinese4linux - this program can be downloaded by Netscape, but not Opera!) sends GuoBiao encoded characters to standard output. (I think the commercial version also handles 'traditional' characters and will output in Bg5, as well as supporting XIM). Cheerio, David. -- Dr.David.Fong(a)medical.net.au - Ivanhoe, 3079, Australia http://www.users.bigpond.com/vkelim/ : ICQ and PGP keys available SuSE Linux

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test
by Isen Kusima 16 Jan '02

16 Jan '02

test anybody here?

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Fwd: [m17n] CJK Input
by ugroh＠t-online.de 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Subject: [m17n] CJK Input Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:33:11 +0100 From: ugroh(a)t-online.de (Ulrich Groh) To: m17n(a)suse.com Still the following will not work (even everything else works now): If I enter Japanese text inside xemacs, I can see the Kanji clearly. But if I save the file and LaTeX the file, the written Kanji will not be displayed by xdvi. (empty space). I am sure that I am doing something wrong (maybe inside xemacs), but I haven't found yet the right hint. Thanks for any help in advance. 新年おめでごさいま。 Best regards Ulrich Groh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m17n-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: m17n-help(a)suse.com ------------------------------------------------------- -- 新年おめでございます。 Best regards Ulrich Groh

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CJK Input
by ugroh＠t-online.de 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

Maybe a stupid question but yet I haven't find the right answer. I installed CJK on my system and tested e.q. the Wadalab tex-files. Everything went well (I can LaTeX the file, see the Kanji on the screen etc.). If I edit the file with xemacs, I only see the strange numbers like $B? etc., even if I start the environment as described in the CJK-Manual. If I enter Japanese text inside xemacs, I can see the Kanji clearly. But if I save and LaTeX the file everything is gone (empty space). I am sure that I am doing something wrong (maybe inside xemacs), but I haven't found yet the right hint. Thanks for any help in advance. By the way: We can't I see the New Years Greetings in KMail ? 新年おめでごさいま。 Best regards Ulrich Groh

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