tlug: Noseguy

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com> writes:

    Frank> I've tried the following:

    Frank>   noseguy -font -jis-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-* \
    Frank>   -mode file -filename ./TEMP.jis

You want JIS but ...

    Frank> The font string was generated with xfontsel, and I've
    Frank> (redundantly) confirmed that a font matching this font
    Frank> declaration does exist in the X font path.

Good.

    Frank> In both cases, Noseguy reports back an empty message.  By
    Frank> its length, I can infer that it's trying to show mojibake
    Frank> -- the JIS version is longer by about the length of the JIS
    Frank> start and end strings as expressed in mojibake.

Yeah, makes sense.  I'm pretty sure XFree86's XDraw* and XDraw*16
functions are entry points to the same function which autodetects
8-bit vs 16-bit fonts.  So you probably don't need to rebuild
Noseguy.  The X fonts are encoded in JIS.  Straight JIS.  _Not_
ISO-2022 nantoka kantoka.  Strip the kanji-in and kanji-out sequences.
Viólą.

I think.  :-P

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