(in the original report) > Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 02:34:44AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > And if I give an explicit UTF-8 font such as > Xpdf*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 > I get complete garbage (lots of white squares). After some investigation, this appears to be the result of a fault in Motif that makes it fail to understand your locale settings. It looks like _XmStringGetCurrentCharset detects the charset in use by looking at LANG, and doesn't know about LC_CTYPE. (I'm not sure why it doesn't use nl_langinfo(CODESET).) So this probably needs filing separately against the motif package... > I'm also wondering how Xft fonts can be used. Syntax like > xft:Bitstream:size=9 (as used by fvwm) doesn't work. I've just made some changes to the xpdf man page to document this better (and I've also made the -font argument map to the font resource, rather than fontList, since the latter doesn't always override the default styling in Motif). The documentation for -font now reads: -font font Override the fonts used for the user interface. This uses a single X core font for all user interface elements, which is not ideal; see the USER INTERFACE FONTS section below for better approaches. (-fn is equivalent.) [X resource: xpdf*font] And there's a new section: USER INTERFACE FONTS In order to support international text in user interface elements, xpdf uses the support for UTF-8 and Xft fonts that was introduced in OpenMotif 2.3. The user interface makes use of four fonts which are specified using Motif Render Tables: default for most text, mono for text in a monospaced font, and helpHuge and helpBig for headings in the About dialog. The fonts used can be customised using X resources. By default, they are configured as follows: Xpdf*renderTable.default.fontType: FONT_IS_XFT Xpdf*renderTable.default.fontName: Sans-Serif Xpdf*renderTable.default.fontSize: 12 Xpdf*renderTable.default.fontEncoding: iso10646-1 Xpdf*renderTable.helpHuge.fontType: FONT_IS_XFT Xpdf*renderTable.helpHuge.fontName: Serif Xpdf*renderTable.helpHuge.fontStyle: bold Xpdf*renderTable.helpHuge.fontSize: 20 Xpdf*renderTable.helpHuge.fontEncoding: iso10646-1 Xpdf*renderTable.helpBig.fontType: FONT_IS_XFT Xpdf*renderTable.helpBig.fontName: Serif Xpdf*renderTable.helpBig.fontSize: 16 Xpdf*renderTable.helpBig.fontEncoding: iso10646-1 Xpdf*renderTable.mono.fontType: FONT_IS_XFT Xpdf*renderTable.mono.fontName: Monospace Xpdf*renderTable.mono.fontSize: 12 Xpdf*renderTable.mono.fontEncoding: iso10646-1 If you prefer to use X core fonts, as in earlier versions of xpdf, you can specify these using conventional resources, provided that you use fonts with the "iso10646-1" Unicode charset: Xpdf*font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 Xpdf*XmTextField.font: -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 If you can think of any improvements to this then please let me know! Thanks, -- Adam Sampson <a...@offog.org> <http://offog.org/>
