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Re: iconv: Xft UTF-8 rendering


Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
I'm having some issues with iconv, Xft, and UTF-8 rendering.  Could you
please help me look into this:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10122

The easiest of those to reproduce is probably blackbox:

http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/x11/blackbox/

If you omit 0.70.1-disable-unicode-fonts.patch, build blackbox, and run
it within a standard X display (not multiwindow), you'll see what I
mean; you don't have to install it to run it for this purpose.

Right now, I want to figure out if the problem is with Cygwin, iconv,
libXft, or these packages (although I doubt the latter).  Any assistance
you can provide would be appreciated.

I think iconv is exonerated. This seems to be breakage due to a sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 assumption in blackbox. The file in question has a trolltech copyright on it so it wouldn't surprise me if the same code turns up in Qt :-)


I've an attached an example patch to fix it in bugzilla.

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