On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:37:52AM -0500, Ahmed El-Helw wrote: > Ahmed El-Helw wrote: > > >** (gnome-terminal:23576): WARNING **: Error (Invalid or incomplete > >multibyte or wide character) converting data for child, dropping. > > okay, i figured out how to resolve that one (have to set encoding to > utf8 in gnome-terminal) -- but there's no shaping with it... anything on > doing the same thing with mlterm? jazakumAllah khair. > -ahmed I guess shaping with gnome-terminal is not that easy, I'll tell you somethin from my private agenda ;-) IIRC, gnome-terminal "zvt actually which is the terminal widget" draws the letters letter by letter without considering the surrounding characters. I can't really remember the details as I had a look at it a year ago. I guess it needs deep hacking to let it work. Personally, I use mlterm and 'm satisfied. -- GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Admin. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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