[Bug 42654] 3-byte utf8-charactes don't display

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42654

--- Comment #4 from Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> ---
(In reply to Peter Laursen from comment #3)
> @Nikolay .. you can try yourself simply paste this 
> 
> insert into `unitest`(`id`,`english`,`native`) values (4,'mandarin','官話');
> insert into `unitest`(`id`,`english`,`native`) values (5,'thai','ไทย');
> insert into `unitest`(`id`,`english`,`native`) values (6,'hindi','हिन्दी');
> insert into `unitest`(`id`,`english`,`native`) values (7,'arabic','العربية');
> 
> .. into any Windows text editor running in Wine. Compare with same
> program(s) running in Windows and similar native Linux programs (Gedit,
> Kedit, Leafpad, whatever) in Linux.

I did just that, and if I select a Chinese font I see the Chinese characters.
Like Nikolay said, it's a font replacement issue, not a utf-8 issue.(In reply
to Peter Laursen from comment #3)
> @Nikolay .. you can try yourself simply paste this 
> 
> insert into `unitest`(`id`,`english`,`native`) values (4,'mandarin','官話');
> insert into `unitest`(`id`,`english`,`native`) values (5,'thai','ไทย');
> insert into `unitest`(`id`,`english`,`native`) values (6,'hindi','हिन्दी');
> insert into `unitest`(`id`,`english`,`native`) values (7,'arabic','العربية');
> 
> .. into any Windows text editor running in Wine. Compare with same
> program(s) running in Windows and similar native Linux programs (Gedit,
> Kedit, Leafpad, whatever) in Linux.
> 
> 
> This is a bug in Wine IMO - ie. there must be an assumption in code that
> characters are not more than 2 bytes long. Such assumption is also true for
> "Windows Unicode" (ie. UTF16 with Little Endian byte-order), but false for
> UTF8 (and Windows handles UTF8 very well for more than 10 years so Wine also
> should).

Wine handles UTF8 just fine. Like Nikolay said, this is a font replacement
issue.

-- 
Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the
above URL to reply.
You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching all bug changes.