[11502] in Athena Bugs
clearer understanding of "accents die mysteriously on suns".
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Dec 7 18:41:38 1993
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 18:41:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: cfyi@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Here is the problem a user reports:
> I used the character composer (^x x in ez) to put accent marks on an
> IBM workstation. Everything was fine. Today I loaded the same file on a
> Sun workstation, and it displayed "/200" before the symbols carring
accent marks.
Here is the mechanism:
You have a document that has only plain text and add an accented character.
You will be able to read and write it on all platforms just fine.
When you add ANY styles, such as bold, you can write it just fine.
If you read it back anywhere EXCEPT A SUN, all is fine.
When text has styles, ez writes accented characters out differently than
when it has none.
The code on the sun to read in that SECOND way has a bug!
I'll let y'all know when I have a fix.
-wdc
