Bug 299802 – Failure to use accented characters in app-editors/nedit-5.5-r1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Jerome Potts 2010-01-05 20:01:29 UTC]

Using the compose key feature of Xorg which works elsewhere, i find myself unable to obtain the desired result with Nedit: i get unexpected characters instead. I tried changing the default ISO 8859-1 font to an ISO 10646-1, but i get the same results

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press the compose key
2. Press single quote key
3. Press "e"

Actual Results:  
"é"

Expected Results:  
"é"

My research has led me to http://www.nedit.org/faq/sect_bugs.php#N1118
I am wondering about this -DNO_XMIM build option. Does it get used in the Gentoo package build process ?
Here is another pointer: http://www.nedit.org/pipermail/develop/2004-September/009777.html

[Comment 1 Jerome Potts 2010-01-05 20:07:32 UTC]

Created attachment 215328 [details]
partial log of the install of app-editors/nedit-5.5-r1

Attached is an old log of a previous failed install of Nedit. Possibly of some help to see the selected build options; i don't see the -DNO_XMIM in it. Perhaps it crashed too early?

[Comment 2 Dawid Węgliński (RETIRED) 2010-01-21 12:48:44 UTC]

Does following patch fix your issue?

diff -u -r1.9 nedit-5.5-r1.ebuild
--- nedit-5.5-r1.ebuild 15 Sep 2009 02:51:23 -0000      1.9
+++ nedit-5.5-r1.ebuild 21 Jan 2010 12:48:08 -0000
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
        epatch "${FILESDIR}/${P}-motif23.patch"
        epatch "${FILESDIR}/${P}-off-by-one.patch"
        sed -i -e "s:-Wl,-Bstatic::" makefiles/Makefile.linux
-       sed -i -e "s:CFLAGS=-O:CFLAGS=${CFLAGS}:" makefiles/Makefile.linux
+       sed -i -e "s:CFLAGS=-O:CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -DNO_XMIM:" makefiles/Makefile.linux
        sed -i -e 's:"/bin/csh":"/bin/sh":' source/preferences.c
 }

[Comment 3 Jerome Potts 2010-01-30 21:36:13 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)

Thanks, there is a bit of improvement, the actual results are now:
"'e"
...not quite it yet, but not as bad as previous.
Do we need to also try those -DROWCOLPATCH and-g CFLAGS ?

[Comment 4 Jerome Potts 2010-01-30 22:28:48 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> 
> Thanks, there is a bit of improvement, the actual results are now:
> "'e"

Uh, on second thought, that's not much of an improvement, since it means that the compose key mechanism isn't heeded any longer. Sorry for the slow thinking.

[Comment 5 Jerome Potts 2010-01-31 23:49:05 UTC]

Created attachment 218044 [details]
output of "locale", and of "equery"

Actually, i now discover that if i launch NEdit from the command line, i get a "UTF8 locale not supported" message, regardless of whether i built with the "DNO_XMIM" patch or not.
I'm searching for where i might have set that locale, but no luck so far:
- No such thing in my $HOME/.nedit/nedit.rc
- when logged on as "root", where there is no nedit.rc file, i get the same message. There are no NEdit files under /etc.
- Both "env | grep -i utf" and "set | grep -i utf" return:
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8
- Both "env | grep -i locale" and "set | grep -i locale" return empty.
- "Text Fonts" in Preferences list the primary font as "-*-courier-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1", and the other fonts are derived from that primary, with the same code page at the end.
- app-editors/nedit has no "utf8" USE flag, or similar

See attachment for related info.

[Comment 6 Jerome Potts 2010-02-01 00:08:59 UTC]

Created attachment 218045 [details]
build log

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2012-02-09 12:21:46 UTC]

Still valid with 5.5_p20110116?