Re: [Pnet-developers] Re: [bug #14368] X lib doesn't display Unicode characters like ∞ (u221e)

[Marc Haisenko]

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 00:37, mboss wrote:
> > Unicode characters like ∞ aren't displayed in any Windows Forms.
>
> on my Linux box most unicode chars are displayed, some are not.
> BTW, the test case Form1  you supplied works!
>
> > The string is not marshalled correct from Xlib.XSharpDrawStringXft() to
> > the C function in XsharpSupport.
> >
> > The string is converted to ANSI and the ∞ is lost.
>
> I do not agree on this;
> if you look into XsharpSupport.c, lines 525 and following,
> things work correct .

Yes. This was my fix for this bug:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9266

The test program works fine for me, too.

> My guess is that the X font used is not complete.

Yes, it's also my guess. And I'm even willing to bet money on that :-)

I'll close this bug.

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