From leif@lege.com Sat Jan 3 00:25:38 1998
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 19:09:39 +0100 (MET)
From: Leif Erlingsson <leif@lege.com>
To: Steve Williams <steve@genie96.com>
Cc: flexfax@sgi.com, Sam Leffler <sam@engr.sgi.com>
Subject: flexfax: Does anyone know if my patches for 8bit iso8859-1
international character sets will make it into the main
distribution?
Does anyone know if my patches for 8bit iso8859-1 international
character sets will make it into the main distribution?
/usr/src/hylafax-v4.0pl1/util/TextFmt.h.patch
/usr/src/hylafax-v4.0pl1/util/TextFmt.c++.patch
These patches, that was posted here on the flexfax list back in
February 1997; Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 07:06:24 +0100 (MET);
Subject: TextFmt.c++/.h & ISO-8859-1; Solution: (unsigned const..;
solves the bug with signed characters that makes 8bit iso8859-1
characters difficult to handle when converting from iso8859-1 text
in email and otherwise.
The patches are very small, but I don't like to post them anyway,
so I'll add them to my web-site as:
http://www.lege.com/hylafax-v4.0pl1-util-TextFmt.h.patch
http://www.lege.com/hylafax-v4.0pl1-util-TextFmt.c++.patch
Just re-name them
/usr/src/hylafax-v4.0pl1/util/TextFmt.h.patch
/usr/src/hylafax-v4.0pl1/util/TextFmt.c++.patch
and apply them using
cd /usr/src/hylafax-v4.0pl1/util
patch < TextFmt.h.patch
patch < TextFmt.c++.patch
and make real clean (read the README's and INSTALL's) and re-
compile! (It was nearly a year ago I did this so I don't
remember how, there is a very good web-site about HylaFax at
http://www.vix.com, check that out if you need assistance!)
Q2: Who is today "official maintainer" of the HylaFax source?
Is it still Sam Leffler <sam@engr.sgi.com>? I never heard from
him after my February 1997 post, that was To: him.
Q3: Is there anything at all going on with the HylaFax project
anymore?
Thanks!
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Here's a transcript of my Feb 13, 1997 post:
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 07:06:24 +0100 (MET)
From: Leif Erlingsson <leif@lege.com>
To: Sam Leffler <sam@hyla.chez.sgi.com>
Cc: Jan Clareus <jancla@rsv.se>, Reine Persson <reiper@rsv.se>,
flexfax@sgi.com, Anders Wass <andwas@rsv.se>
Subject: TextFmt.c++/.h & ISO-8859-1; Solution: (unsigned const char) kludge;
TextFmt.h.patch TextFmt.c++.patch
Parts/attachments:
1 Shown 52 lines Text
2 OK ~1.4 KB Text, "/usr/src/hylafax-v4.0pl1/util/TextFmt.h.patch"
3 OK ~2.1 KB Text, "/usr/src/hylafax-v4.0pl1/util/TextFmt.c++.patch
----------------------------------------
/usr/src/hylafax-v4.0pl1/util/TextFmt.h.patch
/usr/src/hylafax-v4.0pl1/util/TextFmt.c++.patch
Above patches solves ``textfmt'' bugs on any platform/any OS and if
applied by hand, applicable also to older versions of hylafax. Now no
more problems with international character sets and textfmt!
Hi Sam,
have inserted ``(unsigned const char)'' in TextFmt.h and have
added a few lines to hylafax-v4.0pl1/util/TextFmt.c++ to make it function
better in an international environment and with bad data in the upper
character-codes of the metrics-files in the distribution.
Find commented patches attached. Feel free to remove the comments, they
are just there to tell you and others why I did what I did.
The above patches have been thoroughly tested by me. They work well. They
fix a programming error where values in an array are selected using
*negative* indices, causing random memory addresses to be refereced. This
is the cause of much pain in the international Hylafax community. Help is
on it's way! Especially, TextFmt.h.patch solves the worst problem, but
TextFmt.c++.patch may also be neccessary + that it solves minor errors in
the processing of font width data from font metrics files by ignoring data
in the files for character values above 127, because the supplied font
metrics files cannot reliably be used for values above 127 -- iso 8859-1,
instead it uses the same default Sam uses when no font metrics files are
found, but only for values above 127, values up to 127 are read as before.
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So, I repeat my questions, in case anyone forgot it among all the
above verbiage, [ :-) ] does anyone know if my patches for 8bit
iso8859-1 international character sets will make it into the main
HylaFax distribution?
Q2: Who is today "official maintainer" of the HylaFax source?
Is it still Sam Leffler <sam@engr.sgi.com>? I never heard from
him after my February 1997 post.
Q3: Is there anything at all going on with the HylaFax project
anymore?
Thanks!
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Leif Erlingsson Tel +46 8 604-0995
DATA LEGE Fax +46 8 605-2551
Glavagatan 33 URL http://www.lege.com
123 71 Farsta, Sweden Email mailto:leif@lege.com
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