Re: query

[apgaylard]

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:22:34AM +0000, soumya sachidananda wrote:
> >   I'm not able to open source files properly in ddd
> > incase they have Japanese characters in them. The file
> > displays only a few linies upto the line where the Jap
> > character is encountered. How do I solve this since I
> > need the file to step in thru' the code. I don't want
> > to use gdb.
> > I'd really appreciate an answer. Thanks.
> 
> OK, no-one's come up with a better answer, so you may be desperate
> enough to do what we do. When other tools, such as compilers, have
> baulked at Japanese characters in comment fields, we strip them.
> 
> With the compiler, Japanese characters outside comments could not be
> stripped, but even these could be treated in your case (I expect),
> because ddd only needs them for display purposes, surely.
> 
> Hope this helps a little bit.
> 
> Erik

I've thought about this for a bit, and it is similar to this problem
which was described in the PROBLEMS file:

Reported by: Andrew Gaylard <address@hidden>

    If the command window appears as follows on startup:

        GNU DDD 3.3.7 (i686-pc-linux-gnu), by Dorothea L(gdb)ￜ

    then you probably have $LANG set to something like "en_US.UTF-8".
    Setting it to either "C" or "en_US.iso885915", or unsetting it completely
    will fix this problem.

    Alternatively, link with Lesstif.

    This has been observed on Redhat-8.1, but probably affects other
    Unixes as well.

Please try "unset LANG ; ddd your_file" and let me know if this works.

Thanks!

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