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 - 03:19:04 CST
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> I assume you did s/between/before/ when answering my question? If not,
> please tell whether this problem was before (not "between") my first
> non-latin1 support patch.
>
I mean your original patch caused this problem. I had not noticed it
before your patch for Russian support.
Martin
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