New package: btop 1.3.0-1

[Takashi Yano]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:09:10 -0700
Brian Inglis wrote:
> Window blips and disappears whether running from XDG Menu btop++ or terminal!

What happens if you run btop in mintty or UXterm?

> tail ~/.xsession-errors
> ...
> executing 'xterm -e btop', pid 23052
> (pid 23052 stderr) Missing charset KSC5601.1987-0 for fallback fontset

This is not from btop, but from xterm. Just running xterm causes
the same message.

> pid 23052 exited with status 0
> executing 'xterm -e btop', pid 23056
> (pid 23056 stderr) Missing charset KSC5601.1987-0 for fallback fontset
> pid 23056 exited with status 0
> executing 'xterm -e btop', pid 23058
> (pid 23058 stderr) Missing charset KSC5601.1987-0 for fallback fontset
> pid 23058 exited with status 0
> 
> Why would I need legacy Korean character set encoding support not included in or 
> required by the package?
> Apparently this charset used to be supported by font-daewoo-misc, which has been 
> obsoleted by xorg-x11-fonts-misc, none of which support this legacy charset, 
> which may have been because of Fedora licensing concerns:
> Alternatives are labelled UHC or CP949 and modern replacement appears to be EUC-KR.
> 
> https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2021/05/25/missing-charsets-in-string-to-fontset-conversion.html
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1952723
> 
> 	https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-4883dec0ce
> 
> 	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/font/daewoo-misc/-/issues/1
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/font/bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi/-/issues/1
> 
> 	https://github.com/gromnitsky/rpm/blob/master/daewoo-misc-fonts/pkg.spec
> 
> 	https://github.com/kisli/vmime/issues/216
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13798461/how-to-normalize-encoding-names-like-ks-c-5601-1987-to-cp949
> 
> Anything we can do in fontconfig and/or require from some other package that 
> will alias the charset encoding and satisfy that requirement, or do we need a 
> new build or patched release that removes that requirement?

Thomas, any idea?

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>