Hi! I am facing the following problem for displaying certain glyphs in certain fonts using the Tcl/Tk text widget. Any solution from anybody will be of invaluable help to me. I have a set of 8-bit BDF fonts which are almost full in the sense that almost all (about 250) of the 256 encodings are occupied by glyphs. The previous versions of X windows displayed all these glyphs correctly, when called from Tcl/Tk text widgets. But the RedHat 7.* versions (being possibly loaded with new versions of XFree86) are creating problems in displaying glyphs at some encodings. Let us consider the following simple wish script: text .t -font "MY-BDF-FONT-NAME" pack .t .t insert end "[format "%c" 0]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 1]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 2]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 3]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 4]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 5]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 6]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 7]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 8]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 11]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 12]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 13]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 14]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 15]\n" .t insert end "[format "%c" 16]\n" If this is executed, I should see the glyphs defined in the font file with encodings 0, 1, 2, 3, etc. This is what precisely used to happen in the older versions of XFree86 (RedHat 6.* and earlier). Currently what I am getting is a display like this: \x00 \x01 \x02 \x03 \x04 \x05 \x06 \a \b \v \f \r \x0e \x0f \x10 Of course, though \x00 etc look like multi-character words, they are actually representations of single characters. That is to say that the string representing the content of the text widget remains perfectly okay -- only the display gets goofed up. In fact, the older versions of X used to display the same sequences, if the font file associated to the text widget did not contain defined glyphs under these encodings. If, on the other hand, these glyphs were defined, they were displayed. My question is: Is it at all possible to restore the old behavior under the new X distributions? If yes, what are the easy ways? I tried loading my BDF fonts statically at X startup as well as using xfs. The outcome is always the same. I even tried running xfs with the option deferglyphs = all but that did not work. This is apparently not a Tcl/Tk problem, since the same versions of Tcl/Tk (that I am using now) work nicely on older RedHat platforms. On the other hand, most other X programs (like xfd and mozilla) are perfectly displaying all the defined glyphs even under RedHat 7.*. I am thoroughly perplexed to decide who the actual trouble-maker is! I am badly looking for a remedy to this problem. It is indeed a pain to restructure the font files and rewrite big programs conforming to the revised encoding. I admit that having glyphs with encodings 0 - 31 and 128 - 160 is not a good idea. But if certain font has to comprise about 250 glyphs, what will be the neater alternative? I would appreciate any suggestions from anybody. Thanks a lot in advance. -- Abhijit ===== Dr. Abhijit Das Visiting faculty, Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208 016, India Tel: +91-512-597753 (Off), +91-512-598334 (Res) Email: ad_rab@yahoo.com, abhijit@iitk.ac.in URL: http://in.geocities.com/ad_rab/ ________________________________________________________________________ Want to sell your car? advertise on Yahoo Autos Classifieds. It's Free!! visit http://in.autos.yahoo.com
