HP-UX and fonts, roman8 vs. iso8859-1

Carsten Zerbst

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Mar 28, 2001, 5:54:34 AM3/28/01

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Hello,

I just started an app on HP-UX and get a crisis: The application (Tk
8.3.2) takes the roman8 fonts instead of iso 8859-1 encoding. Is there a
simple way to tell the wish to take the right encoding for all fonts ?

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Richard.Suchenwirth

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Mar 28, 2001, 6:33:16 AM3/28/01

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Carsten Zerbst wrote:
> I just started an app on HP-UX and get a crisis: The application (Tk
> 8.3.2) takes the roman8 fonts instead of iso 8859-1 encoding. Is there a
> simple way to tell the wish to take the right encoding for all fonts ?

What is the right encoding? From what I see in wish 8.2.3/NT, roman8 is
not in the encodings supported (as evident from [encoding names]). What
does the [encoding system] command return? If roman8 is HP's system
encoding, you can override that (but be prepared for surprises in
characters beyond 0x7F) with
encoding system iso8859-1
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Akos Polster

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Mar 28, 2001, 8:23:52 AM3/28/01

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Carsten Zerbst wrote:
> I just started an app on HP-UX and get a crisis: The application (Tk
> 8.3.2) takes the roman8 fonts instead of iso 8859-1 encoding. Is there a
> simple way to tell the wish to take the right encoding for all fonts ?

roman8 is an HP anachronism, but if you set the proper
language on the CDE login screen, it should go away.
(Assuming you are running CDE and HP-UX later than 9)

- Akos.

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Laurent Duperval

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Mar 29, 2001, 9:33:29 AM3/29/01

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In article <3AC1E5E8...@lmd.ericsson.se>, "Akos Polster"
<akos.p...@lmd.ericsson.se> wrote:

> Carsten Zerbst wrote:
>> I just started an app on HP-UX and get a crisis: The application (Tk
>> 8.3.2) takes the roman8 fonts instead of iso 8859-1 encoding. Is there
>> a simple way to tell the wish to take the right encoding for all fonts
>> ?
> roman8 is an HP anachronism, but if you set the proper language on the
> CDE login screen, it should go away. (Assuming you are running CDE and
> HP-UX later than 9)
> - Akos.
>

Otherwise you have to play in the configuration files for Vue. I don't
remember which files they are, though. I've had that problem every time I
used an older HPUX machine and that was the only viable solution.