On Tue, 30 May 2000, Eric Bischoff wrote:
> > It is suspicious that the decimal equivalent of small-DZHE in
> > 8-bit iso-8859-5 encoding is 255 (FF).
> 
> Yes ;-)
> 
> Maybe this should be forwarded to some developpers list.

It was a bug in QT.  The following is the original reply
that my friend got from a QT developer, for anyone
interested in the problem.  (turkish?)

> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:46:28 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@freemail.org.mk>
> To: Danko Ilik <danko@mindless.com>
> Subject: Re: Cyrrillic letter doesn't show (fwd)
> Status: RO
> X-Status: A
> Content-Length: 1230
> Lines: 35
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 23:35:58 +0200
> From: qt-bugs@trolltech.com
> To: gdamjan@freemail.org.mk
> Cc: qt-bugs@trolltech.com
> Subject: Re: Cyrrillic letter doesn't show
> 
> > I'm using the xkb X-extension to enter cyrillic letters in QT
> > applications, all works OK, except that the letter "Cyrillic_dzhe" is
> > represented by a questionmark. This happens only with the small letter.
> > This letter has an iso-8859-5 value of 255 so this may cause some
> > problems. The Unicode value is 045f.
> > [...]
> > I should note that this doesn't happen in other applications, so it's
> > unlikely that the bug is due to my system's configuration. For example
> > all works OK in QT-1.45, and my friends had the same problem with other
> > versions of X, glibc, gcc, linux and different fonts.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for reporting this. Fixed now. Change 255 to 256 in
> qtextcodec.cpp line 1556.
> 
> > Also, when the CapsLock is depressed the letters don't come out as
> > capital letters, but this happens in all the others X apps (except rxvt),
> > so I believe this may be an X bug.
> 
> Regards,
> --Dimitri
> 
>   dimitri@trolltech.com                        Fax: +47 22806380
>   Troll Tech AS, Waldemar Thranes gt. 98B, N-0175 Oslo, Norway

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