Re: [XForms] Clipboard copying is not UTF-8 aware

[Рысь]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 11:01:11 +0100
Jens Thoms Toerring <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:44:53PM +0700, Рысь wrote:
> > I watched XForms for a long time and waited for UTF-8 support in it,
> > because otherwise XForms is more saner.
> > 
> > Here is a bug I experienced while trying to port my program to
> > XForms:
> > 
> > Entering Russian texts into XForms text edits works nice and I see
> > proper Russian glyphs. However when I try to copy text from the text
> > edits, I get a garbled characters in place where Russian text
> > should be.
> > 
> > For example, I input: "тестtest", try to copy it with selecting
> > anything and I paste the contents with middle click in gtk2 program
> > and I get this: "тестtest". However when I paste it back to
> > XForms I get proper Russian text again.
> > 
> > My clipboard agent shows same garbled characters when I copy
> > non-ASCII texts from XForms.
> > 
> > Is this a sign of misconfiguration or it's just a bug that should be
> > fixed?
> 
> I can't tell at the moment but it's definitely something that
> could be a bug. I will take a closer look when I find the time
> to start working in the UTF-8 version again. In the meantime
> please be advised that the UTF-8 version is still in develop-
> ment, there are still a number of bugs, also with drawing the
> forms (due to the necessity to use TTF fonts that use anti-
> alialising, which interfers with some aspects of the wat re-
> draws are done).
>                     A happy new year and best regards, Jens

I hope this will be fixed and I will be able to port some of my
programs to XForms and write new ones. I am aware that this is a
development branch so you can easily put this at low priority, I will
wait.
Thank you and happy new 2016 year!

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