[BRLTTY] XW driver fonts problem

Jaroslav Skarvada jskarvad at redhat.com
Mon Apr 11 05:15:16 EDT 2016


----- Original Message -----
> Hello,
> 
> Jaroslav Skarvada, on Thu 07 Apr 2016 05:25:47 -0400, wrote:
> > If there is any font missing the line with the Braille characters is not
> > shown
> > in the simulator and the following message is written to the log:
> > "Error while loading unicode font"
> 
> I've just checked again, I do not get such message. As I mentioned, Xaw
> is supposed to load whatever font it can from the list, and use the
> first that was successfully loaded.
>
> That being said, there is no real reason to hardcode the fixed size,
> so we can as well go with the attached patch, which just tries a few
> unicode-capable fonts, and if not available revert to the standard fixed
> latin1 font.  Does that work in your setup?
> 
> Samuel
> 

Hi,

just removing the size requirement on fixed fonts seems to work, i.e. the
new attached patch

thanks & regards

Jaroslav
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