Re: [STUMP] Weird encoding(?) issue

[Elias Mårtenson]

Thank you. After some discussion on IRC, I solved the issue, but for completeness please allow me to quote the summary here:

I was playing around with Hercules, and for that I use x3270 which is an IBM mainframe terminal emulator. It installs a custom font, which is (drumroll) EBCDIC!

This is proven by starting "xterm -font 3270" which gives gives me an xterm with the same issue.

In StumpWM when starting, it tries to open a font called "9x15". If that font doesn't exist, it gets all fonts and uses the first one. In my case, that happens to be "3270" (presumably since it starts with a digit).

I submitted a PR which was accepted here: https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/pull/635

Regards,
Elias

On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 at 22:32, David Bjergaard <address@hidden> wrote:

Sorry for the delay replying. I’m happy to clarify as much as I can but for now (limited time and keyboard space ;)) check out: 
http://dbjergaard.github.io/posts/clx_extensions.html

And the lengthy discussion here:

https://github.com/McCLIM/McCLIM/issues/35

    David

On Aug 14, 2019, at 3:56 AM, Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden> wrote:

I have been configuring Stumpwm for use on my new(ish) laptop, and I have a weird problem that seems to be related to encoding.

When I start Stumpwm from GDM (using a custom desktop session), all text displayed by StumpWM (for example, the help text) is garbled. All characters are displayed as the wrong symbols.

I don't recognise the way it's garbled. I'm sure it's not UTF-8 text being displayed as Latin-1.

I have confirmed that the LC_* environment variables have the correct value (en_SG.UTF-8).

Is this something anyone has seen before?

Regards,

Elias

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