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in thread Chinese fonts problem in Perl/Tk

Hmmm.

I can't reproduce.
But I can beleive you fall to some kind of configuration problems... may be your OS installations lack some internationalizatio(18)n setting? something with underlying C library (as usual, many perl bugs refer to underlying C lib)

as zentara said you need to post it as bug report, I beleive to bug tracking system. PerlTk mailing lists also wait for your posting :)

Once again, try running my code of pure-Tk (under "wish") and give me a screenshot on your system(s)...
We should start digging from here

In case putting screenshots is pain for you, I can provide you with proper place to put.

Best regards,
Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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Re^10: Chinese font problem in Perl/Tk
by shockers (Acolyte) on Jan 10, 2005 at 17:52 UTC
    Thanks for all your time, Courage.

    A friend of mine in Singapore tried my script on a Solaris 8 box and reported seeing the same problem.

    What OS's have you been able to try on?

    I got your Tk script to run on Redhat Linux (Linux 2.4.18-24.7.x_3.5G #1 Mon Jul 26 13:49:55 CDT 2004) and similar problem -- three of the Chinese characters appeared as \uHHHH codes. Where can I put a screenshot? In the meantime, here's screenshot in my spot.

    Yes, I'll get this issue posted -- probably from home so I can use my handle rather than the office id.
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      Given a fact of failing pure-Tk script, looks like you should ask Tcl people, but asking from both sides (including perlTk) is better

      My estimate is 97% probability to fact that the problem lies in underlying C library, which does not recognizes some characters, due to some locale setting on that OS.

      I advice for you to ask in those lists: ActiveTcl@listserv.ActiveState.com, tcl-core@lists.sourceforge.net for pure-Tk code, they probably will give you some OS-level advices

      OSes I can try on are Linux, Win2000, WinXP, and all they have non-english default locale, which helps with unicode.
      Due to my non-native English, as you already could notice...

      addition I think failing with only few characters from Unicode means you do not have recent enough version. Can you check somehow which Unicode version your system uses? Also which version of Tcl/Tk do you hav eon those systems?

      For tcl version, feed puts $tcl_version to tclsh

      Best regards,
      Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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        Just found out from my Singapore friend trying out the script on Solaris 8:

        "gd news... after i install the langpack for solaris 8 come with the kits. now able to display correctly liao. i have install the solaris 8 lang pack last week ago. i just follow the CD installation step. install all the asian lang"

        So looks like I need to get with the SA's and have them install asian language fonts for Redhat and each Solaris OS.

        Will let you know if that takes care of all the problems.

        Thanks for all the help guys.
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