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| marcosw | sebras: I'm going to reboot casper for updates | 01:50.25 |
| sebras | marcosw: no problem. | 07:13.23 |
| | kens: good morning! | 07:13.32 |
| Robin_Watts_ | To save you all hours: http://1101b.com/xkcd1608/ | 11:50.15 |
| | http://1101b.com/xkcd1608/ | 11:50.16 |
| kens | Too late | 11:50.46 |
| | tor8 bug #696429, on WIndows, does produce a text file which displays 'oddly', though as I said I don;t see it as a problem | 12:09.54 |
| | Its also not the same as what the customer supplied.... | 12:10.03 |
| tor8 | kens: if you by "odd" mean that there are non-breaking spaces intermingled with the occasional real space, then I see the same | 12:10.32 |
| kens | ref_param_write_typedYah, and a few other non-ASCII Unicode characters too | 12:10.48 |
| | ref_param_write_typedOpening the file as a text file on Windows displays the non-breaking spaces as a funny accetned character | 12:11.15 |
| tor8 | the customer supplied file has a lot of garbage characters where the <c2 a0> UTF-8 sequence for U+00A0 should be | 12:11.34 |
| kens | ref_param_write_typedYeah I cannot produce what they sent, and I did try | 12:11.55 |
| tor8 | if I open them as UTF-8 in 'less' I see a katakana Tsu character, followed by U+F8F0 | 12:13.38 |
| | vim shows another mangled character instead | 12:13.59 |
| | so it's obviously not UTF-8 encoded output | 12:14.06 |
| kens | Nope. WOrdPad won't let me specify an Encoding :-( | 12:14.18 |
| tor8 | which makes me think that something's mangled the string on the way from mupdf to their output file | 12:14.47 |
| kens | Oddly I seem to have lost the customer's original email :-( | 12:14.51 |
| tor8 | kens: subject "Unable to render text correctly" to support | 12:16.02 |
| kens | ref_param_write_typedYeah I know, but I seem to have lost the original, I only have Marcos' reply | 12:16.55 |
| | But I found it again in GMail | 12:17.02 |
| tor8 | kens: You really need to get yourself a new keyboard :) | 12:17.13 |
| kens | Or prise out the wobbly insert key | 12:18.04 |
| tor8 | kens: I recommend a http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/uk-topre-realforce-105ub-variable-gold-on-black-keyboard.asp (I use the numpad-less version) which is nigh indestructible | 12:18.40 |
| kens | ref_param_write_typedWell this Logitech one is clearly cheap. | 12:19.16 |
| | The letters are rubbing off some of the keys as well | 12:19.32 |
| | But if I buy a new one it'll probably be a MS ergonomic one | 12:19.48 |
| tor8 | http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/usa-topre-realforce-87uw-Variable-mini-black-on-beige-keyboard.asp this is the one I have used for the past 6 years | 12:20.35 |
| kens | will see after Xmas is over | 12:20.58 |
| tor8 | I'll never go back to cheap rubber dome keyboards :) | 12:21.05 |
| kens | lunch | 12:21.48 |
| Robin_Watts_ | http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/uk-ergo-pro-quiet-pc-ergonomic-keyboard.asp | 13:33.49 |
| kens | Hmm so it splits like the original Apple one | 13:39.20 |
| Robin_Watts_ | and tilts backwards and tents. | 13:39.52 |
| | If it wasn't USB only I'd have my credit card out. | 13:40.03 |
| kens | ref_param_write_typedUSB isn't a problem for me | 13:40.18 |
| kens | is thinking XMas present for me | 13:41.06 |
| tor8 | Robin_Watts_: what's the problem with USB only keyboards? | 15:49.03 |
| Robin_Watts_ | tor8: I use a PS/2 KVM :) | 15:49.18 |
| | So I'd have to use a USB -> PS/2 converter, but that's fine. | 15:49.32 |
| tor8 | hm. might be worth trying to see if one of those simple USB -> PS/2 converters works. | 15:49.40 |
| Robin_Watts_ | tor8: Yeah. I'll wait until my existing keyboard dies. | 15:49.58 |
| | My situation re the kvm may have changed by then. | 15:50.18 |
| tor8 | ever tried x2x/x2vnc/synaptic? | 15:50.42 |
| Robin_Watts_ | tor8: For a RISC PC ? :) | 15:50.56 |
| | synaptic is naff all use to me. | 15:51.16 |
| tor8 | at least one of them is open source, I'm sure you can get it to work ;P | 15:51.18 |
| Robin_Watts_ | tor8: yeah, non-zero effort though :) | 15:51.36 |
| | What I want is to be able to scroll up off my right hand screen, and have the acorn screen appear. | 15:52.12 |
| | or scroll down off the right hand screen and have the mac screen appear. | 15:52.26 |
| | or scroll right off it, and have the laptop appear. | 15:52.35 |
| | I don't want the mouse to move to the laptop screen, cos that's over my shoulder and inconvenient :) | 15:52.56 |
| tor8 | ah, so you want it to change the screen as well... yeah, that's more problematic. | 15:53.03 |
| | might be able to get something to work with vnc | 15:53.11 |
| | but again, non-zero effort | 15:53.20 |
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