Re: tlug: Noseguy

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Frank Bennett wrote:

> 
> To give Linux a running start in the OS popularity contest here,
> I'd like to offer some meaningful and entertaining screensavers
> in the lab.  "Noseguy" has worked his way into the centre of my
> plans.  A colleague here who is a Civil Code scholar and sometime
> Unix hack used "sed" several years ago to grind a copy of the
> Civil Code (written in pre-War official diction, which uses the
> "katakana" instead of the "hiragana" series of phonetics as
> inter-kanji glue), into modern diction, to show how simple such a
> project would be and how much easier it is for ordinary folks to
> interpret in that form.  I'd like to set up Noseguy so that he
> utters sections of Professor Kagayama's edited Civil Code as he
> marches around the screen.
> 
> I've tried the following:
> 
>   noseguy -font -jis-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-* \
>   -mode file -filename ./TEMP.jis
> 
>   noseguy -font -jis-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-* \
>   -mode file -filename ./TEMP.euc
> 
> The font string was generated with xfontsel, and I've
> (redundantly) confirmed that a font matching this font
> declaration does exist in the X font path.
> 
> The TEMP files contain just one word in Kanji.
> 
> In both cases, Noseguy reports back an empty message.  By its
> length, I can infer that it's trying to show mojibake -- the JIS
> version is longer by about the length of the JIS start and end
> strings as expressed in mojibake.
> 
> Suggestions, anyone?  Does this look like a problem with the
> encoding in the TEMP.* file, or a problem in the source of
> Noseguy?

You'll have to relink noseguy with the i18n libraries so that it can map
the encoding to the right font characters.  See, right now it doesn't know
that it's supposed to interpret the string as double-byte characters...

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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