On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Francesco Poli > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:58:08 -0400 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Francesco Poli >> [...] >>> > So it must be something that Midori does, when setting the window title: >>> > this "something" seems to cause problems with Fluxbox only, for some >>> > obscure reason. >>> >>> >>> Well. Fluxbox displays only what WM_NAME contains. >> >> Hi Paul, >> thanks a lot for your quick and kind reply! :-) > > Thanks for the report! :) > >> >>> >>> Try starting up the application and let's see what `xprop WM_NAME` >>> outputs. It might be a result of the font you're using or it just >>> plain being wrong, and other WMs hiding that. >> >> $ xprop WM_NAME >> WM_NAME(COMPOUND_TEXT) = "Debian -- The Universal Operating System" >> >> Maybe you don't see it in the copied and pasted text, but, if I >> redirect the output of the xprop command: >> >> $ xprop WM_NAME > /tmp/xprop.out >> >> and open the resulting file with vim, I see the following: >> >> WM_NAME(COMPOUND_TEXT) = "<202a>Debian -- The Universal Operating System" > > A take a look at the raw bits gets me: > > e2 80 aa - which is: > > UCS-4: 0000202A LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING > UTF-8: E2 80 AA > > Interesting... > >> >> And >> >> $ file /tmp/xprop.out >> /tmp/xprop.out: UTF-8 Unicode text > > My results seem to confirm this > >> >> I am attaching the gzipped version of this file, for completeness. > > Helped a super ton, thank you :) > >> >> By the way, when I do the same with another browser (Galeon), I see the >> following: >> >> WM_NAME(STRING) = "Debian -- The Universal Operating System" >> >> Please note: no strange symbols (the file command says "ASCII text") >> and STRING rather than COMPOUND_TEXT. >> And indeed, I don't see any extraneous question mark in the window >> title, when I use Galeon... > > It must be the case that it does not output the LTR UTF-8 char. Interesting. > >> >>> >>> That symbol is not something fluxbox will generate, and I do think >>> this bug needs to be assigned back to Midori (since they're the only >>> one who sets their name) >>> >>> Let's see what that output looks like, and if it's just because of a >>> font that can't handle that exotic char. >> >> It really seems that there's an exotic character that isn't correctly >> displayed, due to a missing gliph in the fonts, perhaps. > > This might be something we need to take a look at. Humm. Let me think > about this for a second or two.
Is there any chance you could test a different font? What font are you using? > >> >> >> -- >> http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt >> New GnuPG key, see the transition document! >> ..................................................... Francesco Poli . >> GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE >> > > Thanks for the report! > Paul > > -- > All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. > > #define sizeof(x) rand() > :wq > -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
