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List:       xfree-i18n
Subject:    Re: [I18n]xterm: combining character weirdness
From:       Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <thep () linux ! thai ! net>
Date:       2002-11-22 16:28:20
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:06:19PM +0000, Abigail Brady wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 15:54, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
> > While contributing Thai glyphs to Markus Kuhn's ucsfonts
> > (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz), I found xterm
> > rendered combining characters for 8x13 and 8x13B fonts by overwriting the
> > base character, instead of combining to it, while all other fonts were
> > rendered OK.
> > 
> > I have checked the fonts and nothing funny is found. Could it be xterm's
> > problem?
> 
> I don't understand this at all - just tested it and it works fine for
> me.  And I don't see any way in the source for this to happen.  Which
> release of xterm are you using?

The one from 2002-11-22 (today) cvs snapshot.

More details for the sympthom:
<k> = ko kai (U+0E01)
<i> = sara i (U+0E34)

When I type:

<k> -> it renders <k>

Then, I type:
                  <i>             <i>
<i> -> it renders    , instead of <k>
(the base character <k> is overwritten)

-Thep.
-- 
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Thai Linux Working Group (TLWG)
http://linux.thai.net/thep/
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