Scratch that, I've duplicated with the Ubuntu font.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Paul Tagliamonte <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
>
>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Thanks for the report!
>> Paul
>>
>> --
>> All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.
>>
>> #define sizeof(x) rand()
>> :wq
>>
>
>
>
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