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in thread Chinese fonts problem in Perl/Tk

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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Re^11: Chinese font problem in Perl/Tk
by Courage (Parson) on Jan 11, 2005 at 00:16 UTC
    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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        As for my understanding, "lang pack" and "asian language fonts" are very different things.

        Best regards,
        Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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