Re: UTF-8 support (with XFT fonts)

[Michael Eager]

On 4/25/22 15:23, Joe Nelson via Discussion list for DDD, the GNU 
graphical debugger front end wrote:
> I'm debugging a program which manipulates UTF-8 strings, and I'd like to
> see the special characters when inspecting variables.
>
> I found a tip in a Motif forum [0] that does almost what I need. It told
> me to enable XFT fonts using resources. I added this to my ~/.ddd/init:
>
>    Ddd*renderTable: rt
>    Ddd*rt*fontType: FONT_IS_XFT
>    Ddd*rt*fontName: Inconsolata
>    Ddd*rt*fontSize: 8
>
> The change allows me to see special characters properly in a tooltip
> when hovering over variables, and when printing in the GDB console
> window. However, it isn't affecting the data display window.
>
> Anyone know how to use an XFT font in the data display window?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> 0: https://motif.ics.com/forum/developers/utf8-support

Can you send me a small test program and tell me exactly what you are 
doing in DDD to display the data?

Also send me your ~/.ddd/init file.

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Michael Eager