Bug 51412

Summary: sawfish doesn't display cyrillic characters
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Leonid Kanter <leon>
Component: sawfishAssignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.3CC: ekanter
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Description Leonid Kanter 2001-08-10 11:23:33 UTC 
Description of Problem:

sawfish doesn't display cyrillic characters in 'fixed' font

How Reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start GNOME with LANG=ru_RU.koi8r

Actual Results:

you'll see "?" in sawfish menu and in control-center

Expected Results:

cyrillic characters must be there

Additional Information:
Comment 1 Leonid Kanter 2001-08-10 11:25:07 UTC 
Created attachment 27233 [details]
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Comment 2 Leonid Kanter 2001-08-10 11:28:32 UTC 
Created attachment 27234 [details]
this patch solves the problem
Comment 3 Glen Foster 2001-08-10 20:01:49 UTC 
We (Red Hat) should really try to fix this before next release.
Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2001-08-15 19:45:50 UTC 
Created attachment 28014 [details]
patch applied
Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2001-08-15 19:47:02 UTC 
sawfish 0.38-8 should fix this
Comment 6 Eugene Kanter 2001-08-15 21:23:00 UTC 
Would be possible for you to explain the reason for a difference betwen 
proposed and applied patches?
Comment 7 Havoc Pennington 2001-08-15 21:27:33 UTC 
Sure, the font name I put in is the one we use in gnome-terminal as well, which
works in Japanese. I'm not sure the one in the other patch will work, though it
probably does; I just went with the one I know is tested.

The real fix is probably to call gettext() on these font names and have them
translated to something nice per-locale. This is what we recently did to
gnome-terminal. I'm not sure how to do that for the lisp half of the patch
though, and there's no way we'll get them translated by the next release anyhow.