Re: tlug: Noseguy

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> writes:

>     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.

I've tried that.  I still get a blank speech box.  More Coda news
coming -- I'll send a separate post.

Cheers,
-- 
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Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
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