Little boxes instead of thai characters

Submitted by jfmxl on Wednesday, 31 December, 2008 - 12:08

I am unable to enter Thai characters into jEdit, and jEdit no longer displays Thai characters, but little square boxes instead. The files I'm looking at are loaded as utf-8.

I show below various parameters of my system. I had to set the locale by hand. No matter what I tried I could not get the system to do it.

I have a java based dictionary program as well, LEXiTRON, which will display Thai characters but will not allow me to enter them. OpenOffice, Text Editor, command line, Firefox, Thunderbird... no problems.

So I think it's java.

Anyone have any insight?

Thanks in advance.

jfl@ws0:~$ uname -a
Linux ws0 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 21:57:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

jfl@ws0:~$ jedit -version
Warning: $JAVA_HOME environment variable not set! Consider setting it.
Attempting to locate java...
Found a virtual machine at: /usr/bin/java...
jfl@ws0:~$ jEdit 4.3pre16

jfl@ws0:~$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_10"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_10-b33)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 11.0-b15, mixed mode, sharing)

jfl@ws0:~$ locale
LANG=th_TH.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

jfl@ws0:~$ locale -a
C
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_NG
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX
th_TH
th_TH.tis620
th_TH.utf8

jfl@ws0:~$ cat /etc/environment
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
#LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
#LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="th_TH:th"
LANG="th_TH.UTF-8"

If there is anyone out there who might help, I'd appreciate it.

by jfmxl on Sun, 04/01/2009 - 03:13

When I type 'sawasdee krup' in Thai into gedit, I see it rendered correctly. When I type the same into jEdit I see the little square boxes. When I save the two files and open them in gedit, they are rendered correctly and identically. When I save the two files and open them in jEdit, they are rendered incorrectly and identically. When I run 'od file.txt > file-od.txt' on each of the files the two output files are identical. When, as I saw suggested somewhere on the web, I use the jEdit utilities->troubleshooting->keyboard tester facility, I get Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xffff,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 filtered Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xffff,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0x4c,keyChar=0xe2a,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 filtered Event KEY_TYPED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xe2a,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed ==> Translated to <0,e2a> Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x4c,keyChar=0x6c,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0x3b,keyChar=0xe27,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 filtered Event KEY_TYPED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xe27,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed ==> Translated to <0,e27> Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x3b,keyChar=0x3b,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0x59,keyChar=0xe31,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 filtered Event KEY_TYPED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xe31,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed ==> Translated to <0,e31> Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x59,keyChar=0x79,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0x4c,keyChar=0xe2a,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 filtered Event KEY_TYPED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xe2a,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed ==> Translated to <0,e2a> Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x4c,keyChar=0x6c,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0x46,keyChar=0xe14,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 filtered Event KEY_TYPED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xe14,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed ==> Translated to <0,e14> Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x46,keyChar=0x66,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0x55,keyChar=0xe35,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 filtered Event KEY_TYPED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xe35,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed ==> Translated to <0,e35> Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x55,keyChar=0x75,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0x38,keyChar=0xe04,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 filtered Event KEY_TYPED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xe04,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed ==> Translated to <0,e04> Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x38,keyChar=0x38,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0x49,keyChar=0xe23,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 filtered Event KEY_TYPED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xe23,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed ==> Translated to <0,e23> Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x49,keyChar=0x69,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0x59,keyChar=0xe31,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 filtered Event KEY_TYPED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xe31,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed ==> Translated to <0,e31> Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x59,keyChar=0x79,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0x5b,keyChar=0xe1a,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 filtered Event KEY_TYPED,keyCode=0x0,keyChar=0xe1a,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed ==> Translated to <0,e1a> Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x5b,keyChar=0x5b,modifiers=0x0,consumed=0 passed LEXiTRON now works correctly, so I think it's jEdit. If there is anyone out there who might help, I'd appreciate it.

Used to work with Ubuntu 7.10 and JEdit4.3pre11

by jfmxl on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 12:46

Used to work with Ubuntu 7.10 and JEdit4.3pre11

Is there anywhere else I might go to get help with my problem?

by jfmxl on Fri, 02/01/2009 - 08:38

Is there anywhere else I might go to get help with my problem?

Hi, I'm not quite sure ab

by elberry on Tue, 06/01/2009 - 00:29

Hi,
I'm not quite sure about this one. You could definitely try the user's and developer's mailing lists, but if it's a Java issue, I'm not sure if they're going to be able to help much.

https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=588

You could also try the Java forums and see if there's any posts about similar issues.

http://forums.java.net/jive/index.jspa

Sorry couldn't be more help.

The only think I can think of is to ask about the font you are using. Have you tried changing the fonts to something other than the default?

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