Onsdag 14. November 2001 13:29, you wrote:
> In the command window in the java-X-application, ~ (tilde), | (pipe), <
> and are not shown. All other characters are fine included the special
> Norwegian chars æøå.
>
> Do anyone have a suggestion what can be done to fix the problem ?
I will answer my own question for future reference for other people
experience the same as me. The solution found here are drawn by several
email's I got.
First of all Insightful ships a JRE with SPlus 6.0 that has known faults with
its internationalization support. So until they fixes this I would discourage
people buying SPlus 6.0 for Linux since the gui is broken. This have been
known, according to a email I got, since Dec 2000 (email included as an
attachment). That this problem/solution are not to be found on the
insightful's web page goes to show the level of support you can expect as an
international costumer of this company.
The faulty JRE is amendable though, by downloading the last JRE from IBM or
SUN. (as described in the attachment)
This fixes some of the the chars like | and <>. But it still didn't fix
the ~,^ and ¨. To mend this problem I rearranged my Xmodmap to use the
useless win95 keys that are found to the right of space-key.
If you would like to do the same just add :
keycode 0x75 = asciitilde
keycode 0x74 = asciicircum diaeresis
to the end of the /etc/X11/Xmodmap (Placement of Xmodmap might differ in
different distribution, I use SuSE 7.2)
I must say that this is a only a temporal solution, and I would encourage
Insightful to use a gui-lib that has a working internationalization support.
I would like to mention Qt 2/3 as one soultion, among several others, which in
addition would make SPlus gui usable when operating on a Xserver that are on a
different machine than the Xclient.
Ingar Pareliussen
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