Re: Release plans [was: Building packages with 21.5b29?]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa(a)mcw.edu&gt; wrote: Oh, then I'll stop taking you seriously. :-) My first thought was that it wouldn't help, since we're using the same RPM. But there are some interesting differences between yours and mine. Mine says: Value of LC_ALL : nil Value of LC_COLLATE : nil Value of LC_CTYPE : nil Value of LC_MESSAGES : nil Value of LC_MONETARY : nil Value of LC_NUMERIC : nil Value of LC_TIME : nil Value of LANG : en_US.UTF-8 Mine says: current-language-environment => "English" default-buffer-file-coding-system => utf-8 default-process-coding-system => (undecided . utf-8) (current-locale) => "en_US.UTF-8" keyboard-coding-system => utf-8 terminal-coding-system => utf-8 (coding-priority-list) => (utf-8 iso-8-1 utf-16-little-endian-bom utf-16-bom utf-8-bom iso-7 no-conversion iso-8-2 iso-8-designate iso-lock-shift shift-jis big5 utf-16-little-endian utf-16 ucs-4) Mine says: 'native is aliased to utf-8 'file-name is aliased to utf-8 'mswindows-multibyte-system-default is not a coding system alias RHEL/Fedora/CentOS are setup to do everything in UTF-8 these days. Your environment appears to be some weird mix of UTF-8 (LANG) and ISO-8859-1 (everything else). This rings a bell with me, because Ville added a patch to the Fedora build many moons ago, named xemacs-21.5.26-utf8-fonts.patch, that does this: --- xemacs-21.5.26/etc/Emacs.ad.orig 2003-03-27 14:57:44.000000000 +0200 +++ xemacs-21.5.26/etc/Emacs.ad 2006-04-14 20:37:56.000000000 +0300 ＠＠ -198,8 +198,12 ＠＠ ! *menubar*FontSet: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*, \ ! -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-120-*-jisx0208.1983-0 ! -*menubar*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* -*popup*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* +*menubar*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* +*popup*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* + +XEmacs*FontSet: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1, \ + -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*, \ + * *menubar*FontSet: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*, \ -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-120-*-iso10646-1, \ -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-120-*-jisx0208.1983-0, \ ＠＠ -211,7 +215,7 ＠＠ ! Gui elements share this font ! -Emacs.gui-element.attributeFont: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* +Emacs.gui-element.attributeFont: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* ! Font in the Motif dialog boxes. ! (Motif uses `fontList' while most other things use `font' - if you don't ＠＠ -227,7 +231,7 ＠＠ ! Some people use 12-point anyway because you get more text, but ! there's no purpose at all in doing this for dialog boxes. -*Dialog*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* +*Dialog*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-* ! Dialog box translations. ! ======================= I don't understand the reason for the patch, and I also don't understand the failure mode you're experiencing, but try letting your environment be pure UTF-8 and see if that has any effect. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta