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Bug 154872

Summary: x11-wm/fluxbox - squares in fluxbox title bar instead of non-latin characters
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: fctk86
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) <lack>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: minor CC: tercel
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: screenshot

Description fctk86 2006-11-12 04:28:12 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061111 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: 

If I open in the browser a site such as:
- ja.wikipedia.org
- cn.yahoo.com
- www.bbc.co.uk/russian
or run, for example, urxvt -title &#12513;&#12452;&#12531;&#12506;&#12540;&#12472;, then in the window title bar
squares are displayed instead of non-latin characters.

I get the same result with:
- fluxbox-0.9.15.1-r1
- fluxbox-1.0_rc2-r2
- fluxbox from svn (rev. 4602)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rm -rf ~/.fluxbox
2. install fluxbox (either from portage or svn)
3. edit ~/.fluxbox/startup
4. startx
5. open a window with some non-latin character in the title
Actual Results:  
In the window title bar squares are displayed instead of non-latin characters.

Expected Results:  
Fluxbox should display proper characters in the window title bar.

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.15-suspend2-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-suspend2-r4 i686 AMD Sempron(tm)  2600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:30:01 +0000
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox
sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/
http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow alsa bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cjk cli cracklib crypt
cups dlloader dri elibc_glibc fortran gdbm gpm iconv input_devices_evdev
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog kernel_linux libg++
minimal mmx ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pcre perl ppds pppd python readline
reflection session spl sse ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode
userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips
video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev
video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810
video_cards_imstt video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nsc
video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge
video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb
video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng
video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via
video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo xorg zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

$ cat /etc/env.d/02locale 
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

# locale -a
C
en_US
en_US.utf8
POSIX

# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

$ cat ~/.xinitrc 
exec startfluxbox

(for fluxbox from gentoo)
$ cat .fluxbox/startup 
exec /usr/bin/fluxbox

(for fluxbox from svn)
$ cat .fluxbox/startup 
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox

[ebuild  N    ] x11-wm/fluxbox-1.0_rc2-r2  USE="nls truetype -disableslit
-disabletoolbar -gnome -imlib -kde -xinerama" 0 kB

[ebuild  N    ] x11-wm/fluxbox-0.9.15.1-r1  USE="nls truetype -disableslit
-disabletoolbar -gnome -imlib -kde -xinerama" 0 kB
Comment 1 fctk86 2006-11-12 04:32:01 UTC 
Created attachment 101726 [details]
screenshot

screenshot added.
Comment 2 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-03-23 20:18:23 UTC 
What font are you using in your current style?

To get non-latin characters in the titlebar, your style has to use a font that contains the appropriate non-latin characters.

For example, if my style has:
  *.font: sans-10
(Which on my system maps to 'Bitream Vera Sans') and I take firefox to somewhere strange, I get the boxes in my fluxbox titlebar, just like you reported.

But, if my style has:
  *.font: Arial-10
I get all the odd Russian characters you could ever want.

To see what font is actually used in case the one in your style isn't found, run:
  $ fc-match SomeFont-10
  Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"

With the advent of fluxbox-0.9.15, you can set up a style overlay to override all the fonts in all styles.  For details, see http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/Overlay
Comment 3 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-03-23 20:19:48 UTC 
Marking "invalid" since it's not really a bug, just a configuration issue :)
Comment 4 fctk86 2007-04-29 18:55:46 UTC 
thank you, Jim.

I just want to point out that I partially fixed this problem by emerging dejavu fonts and using:

*font: dejavusans-11:style=book

now I can see russian, greek, hebrew, arabic, ... glyphs, but still no chinese, japanese, korean, ...

anyway, now it's better than with bitstream vera fonts :)