Re: severe problems with fonts under russian locale with gnumeric-0.71

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:21:26PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >  When it was made? Gnumeric should use the font gnome print returns to it, so
> > manual gdk_font_load or gdk_fontset_load is not anywhere.
> >  Could you please tell in which file that s/gdk_font_load/gdk_fontset_load/
> > happened?
> It is used as a fallback to font 'fixed' in case there is no
> response from gnome-print.  The code is in src/style.c,  There is
> also a reference in the stf dialog but that is going to be replaced.

 OK, I checked it. It's really the only place that has changed wrt font
handling, and I think it's very useful and indeed fixes a problem for CJK
people.
 (BTW, diff between 0.70 and 0.71 is 38 mbs in size, ~8 mb gzipped. Funny..)
   
> >  I know that version of gnumeric before 0.71 and gnome-print-0.29 definitely
> > had problems with fonts - encoding of the font was random, different for
> > different font size and style.
> >  Gnumeric before 0.71 and GP 0.30 and 0.31 DIDN'T have such problems.
> >  Gnumeric after 0.71 and GP 0.30 and 0.31 have such problems.
> >
> >  Where one can see the bugrepors about font problems? Are they available in
> > bugzilla or do you receive them in private mail?
>
> The reports that concern me are crashes.  There has been a wave (4-5) of
> crash reports for ximian 0.71 on redhat 7.x systems.  All of them
> dispaly the same impossible back trace and crash on start up.
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62520
> is a good example.

 May be stack becomes corrupted producing such impossible trace..
 I asked more russian users - none of them suffered any problems with font
handling in gnumeric 0.74 and 0.72.. It seems the box with problems had some
other things broken, dunno..

 Best regards,
  -Vlad