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[feisty] Xemacs shows curly braces '{}' as square braces '[]'

Bug #94738 reported by Burnce
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xemacs21 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xemacs21-mule

Not sure that the problem is actually in the xemacs package.

Since updating to feisty, curly braces '{}' are displayed as square braces '[]'. The data in the files is still correct and when editing text the actually typed brace is written to the file, so it looks kind of like a font problem.

Also, when starting up xemacs-mule, I get this error message, but this was already the case before updating to feisty:

       Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
       Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset

    And inside xemacs
       (1) (xim-xlib/warning) Can't get fontset resource for Input Method

This error message does not appear for the xemacs21-gnome-mule package, but the braces are incorrectly shown there too.

Package versions (I tried purging and reinstalling all xemacs packages):

      xemacs21-support_21.4.19-2_all.deb
      xemacs21-bin_21.4.19-2_i386.deb
      xemacs21-mulesupport_2006.05.10-1ubuntu1_all.deb
      xemacs21-basesupport_2006.05.10-1ubuntu1_all.deb
      xemacs21-mule_21.4.19-2_i386.deb
      xemacs21_21.4.19-2_all.deb
      xemacs21-gnome-mule_21.4.19-2_i386.deb

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Ketil Malde (ketil-ii) wrote :

I don't see this (running a fresh install of Feisty beta), and I agree it sounds like a font problem.
I do get the "Missing charsets" warning, though - no practical consequences so far.

Do you have old cruft in your .emacs or .xemacs/ perhaps? Or in .Xdefaults or similar (xrdb -q)? Try removing and restarting?

Try with '-fn fixed' (or another font)?

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Burnce (burnce) wrote :

Thanks for the tips.

It was indeed cruft from my .emacs

I removed the two most likeley candidates and it now works. They were:

 - A UTF-8 locale setting
 - A font face setting to courier

Cheers,

Burnce

Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in xemacs21:
status: New → Invalid
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