Re: Text drawing bug - gaps after 16th character in scaled view

[Fred Kiefer]

Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> Yes, there must be a mismatch between the metrics reported by -xlib to
> -gui and the actual width of the glyphs when drawn. I'm not very
> familiar with -xlib's font code, but I had a quick look at it and fixed
> one fairly obvious bug that would cause incorrect metrics to be reported
> for non-latin1 fonts on big-endian systems. Does this apply to your
> system? If so, can you check if it works with latest cvs of -back?

The actual fix solves a problem on systems where
unsigned int == unsigned short
does not hold. I think that this is indendent of the endianess of the 
system (You rather expect it to fail on a 16 bit or 64 bit machine). 
Still it was a bug and it is great that you did resolve it.

Fred