Re: [Pan-users] Asian characters - should this work?

[Vadim Berezniker]

Duncan wrote:
> On Wed 21 May 2003 16:40, Wolf J. Flywheel posted as excerpted below:
> >         I just stumbled across this one while reading the gentoo-users
> > mailing list via gmane.org.  A particular message, which I suppose was
> > posted in Korean, displays odd rectangular glyphs instead of what I'd
> > expect -- not that the Korean characters would make any more sense to me!
> >  :)
>
> I've seen that a time or two, but don't recall what app it was in.  I think it 
> might have been KDE, however, which brings me to the point.. I think that 
> happens to be the glyphs whatever western font may have at those high 
> character values or whatever.  If you had the correct font, it would show the 
> correct glyphs.

The subjects might use a different encoding which your locale won't 
process. Your locale will probably display Western and Unicode, it won't 
display anything in other locales. (unless you run something with 
different locale, or the app allows you to set encoding, etc)

> BTW, those rectangles look like dominoes to me.  <g>  Those are small 
> rectangular blocks of wood or whatever, with dots marking numbers, one number 
> at each end, as played in a game called dominoes.  I assume whatever font it 
> is was used by one of the sponsors as a doubling for a domino font, for some 
> sort of game.

That's pango (library that gtk uses it for rendering text) telling you 
that the font doesn't have the corresponding character. The numbers on 
the rectangle indicate the index of the character that belongs in that 
space.


> Of course, that's just guessing, here..