RE: About the zh_CN.GB2312 locale

["Young, Robert" <Robert Young dsto defence gov au>]

> Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2002, Zhang Lin-bo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to dia and I'm pretty interested in
> > using it, especially to draw diagrams with Chinese
> > characters. Thus I downloaded the cvs snapshot of 20020509
> > (may 9 2002), compiled it on a rh7.3 system, and tried
> > to create a diagram containing Chinese characters.
> > Here are some observations based on my experience:
> >
> > o Environment: redhat-7.3, locale: zh_CN.GB2312, XFree86 4.1.0
> >   (the Chinese input server xcin does not work with the
> >   XFree86-4.2.0 of rh7.3).
> >
> > o Configure options: --prefix=/usr --enable-unicode 
> --enable-gnome-print
> >   (I got segfault with "--enable-freetype" with a certain diagram,
> >    and compilation fails with "--enable-gnome" because some
> >    function "gnome_set_sensitivity(?)" is missing).
>
> Too bad with the segfault with freetype, could you send the 
> diagram that
> provokes it (to me personally if it is sensitive, I can't 
> read Chinese:).


Given that you are using RedaHat 7.3, you posibly have the same problem I
have - hence the patch I submitted last week (RE: RE: Freetype problems
under RH7.3 21/5/02). I you use this patch then freetype *may* work - please
let me know if it helps.

Good luck!

Rob.