Re: UTF-8 font problems in Snow Leopard X11
Re: UTF-8 font problems in Snow Leopard X11
- Subject: Re: UTF-8 font problems in Snow Leopard X11
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:53:45 -0700
Hmm... well honestly, I'm going to file this in the unsolved mysteries
file and move on. If someone else trips upon some font related bugs
after moving to SnowLeopard, I'll look into it further, but my guess
is that it is a tcl bug that just happened to rear its head now.
I, too, am puzzled, but I don't think it's worth the effort it would
take to investigate at this point.
Thanks for reporting your findings, though... if someone else starts
to have issues, this will be a good test case to work with.
On Sep 17, 2009, at 15:40, Tom Lane wrote:
I wrote:
On the whole I suspect it'd be easier for me to try to find a smaller
reproducer. If I dig into exmh a bit I should be able to find a line
or two of Tcl that causes the same problem. Let me get back to you
later today ...
Well, here's the reproducer:
$ cat bug.tcl
set widget [message .font]
pack $widget -side top
$widget config -font "-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" -text "foo"
$ /opt/tcl8.3/bin/wish8.3 -f bug.tcl
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range
for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Value in failed request: 0x1c00006
Serial number of failed request: 36
Current serial number in output stream: 37
However it only fails for me with tcl 8.3.x, not with 8.4 or 8.5.
So that suggests strongly that this is basically an old tcl bug.
I'm still curious though why the behavior manifests with Snow
Leopard's
X11 and not earlier releases. As I said, I've been using this mail
program for a lot of years, and I never saw a crash like this before
updating to SL ...
regards, tom lane
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