Re: ANNOUNCE: GNUMail.app 1.0.1

[Fred Kiefer]

Nerijus Baliunas wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:28:37 +0400 Sir Raorn <raorn@binec.ru> wrote:
>
> SR> > if I change charset when viewing message (Message->Text
> SR> > Encodings) I still see "*" instead of Lithuanian letters. If
> SR> > I type Lithuanian letters, I get ISO-8859-1 equivalents
> SR> > instead of ISO-8859-13.
> SR> I think it's font's problem. Try run openapp GNUMail.app
> SR> --GNU-Debug=dflt and look at "fount encoding x for y-z"
> SR> messages.
>
> Loaded font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
> Found encoding 5 for iso8859-1
> ...
> SR> P.S. And check your GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING env.var.
>
> What should it be? I tried ISO-8859-13, iso8859-13, some numbers (7 for
> example), but I still get the same messages as above and "*" instead of
> letters.

The problem you are getting come from the fact that the xgps backend 
(when not using Xft) will only use one fixed X font for a given font 
name. If the font "helvetica" is used inside of GNUstep the one selected 
X font, in your case 
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" is used. So only 
characters (or glyphs) that are available in that font can be displayed.
The selection which font name to use happens inside the font_cacher and 
is more or less at random (the order fonts are listed by the X system).

You can influence the fonts that are available by setting:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontMask "*iso8859-13*"

and recreating your font cache (by deleting the old one). As has been 
noted by Adam, this is not the best way to go and in the long run 
GNUstep will have to be able to provide different fonts with the same 
encoding. Font sets may be a way to go here.