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Major UTF8 text size bug #204585 24/09/08 11:58 PM
Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10 D Daimie OP Pikka bird
OP Daimie Pikka bird D Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10	Hello, I noticed UTF8-encoded text seems to be much smaller than before. Took screenshots from 6.2 and 6.34 clients comparing the text size. Font Settings: Tahoma, size 8 on both clients mIRC 6.2 (up) vs the latest mIRC 6.34 Maybe the following change caused the bug? From 6.33 changelog: 11. Fixed text display bug due to incorrect text width measurement with some fonts/characters, now using new method to measure text width. I'm forced to use the old version of mIRC until this is fixed. Last edited by Daimie; 24/09/08 11:58 PM.

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Daimie #204601 25/09/08 11:12 AM
Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10 D Daimie OP Pikka bird
OP Daimie Pikka bird D Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10	Oops I was tired last night, of course, it's mIRC 6.34 (up) and mIRC 6.2 below. Notice how the basic ASCII-text is unaffected by this bug.

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Daimie #204603 25/09/08 01:40 PM
Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10 D Daimie OP Pikka bird
OP Daimie Pikka bird D Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10	Suddenly the bug disappeared in 6.34, no idea what on earth happened. Unless it occurs again, consider this as a false report. If someone has similar experiences, please post here.

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Daimie #204617 25/09/08 09:15 PM
Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 17 Franklin, TN S Siefer414 Pikka bird
Siefer414 Pikka bird S Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 17 Franklin, TN	Nice triple post.

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Siefer414 #204621 26/09/08 12:08 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK	Originally Posted By: Siefer414 Nice triple post. Nice worthless post.

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Collective #204625 26/09/08 01:25 AM
Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 17 Franklin, TN S Siefer414 Pikka bird
Siefer414 Pikka bird S Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 17 Franklin, TN	Same to you.

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Siefer414 #204681 27/09/08 09:52 PM
Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10 D Daimie OP Pikka bird
OP Daimie Pikka bird D Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10	Well something clearly triggers the bug in 6.34, I just don't know yet what exactly.

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Daimie #204682 27/09/08 10:43 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK	Has it reoccurred since your previous post? Have you recently installed any software that may have included additional fonts?

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Collective #204691 28/09/08 12:33 PM
Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10 D Daimie OP Pikka bird
OP Daimie Pikka bird D Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10	Originally Posted By: Collective Has it reoccurred since your previous post? Yes, once. Originally Posted By: Collective Have you recently installed any software that may have included additional fonts? Nope, and I always use Tahoma (font size 8) on mIRC.

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Daimie #204710 29/09/08 01:06 AM
Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10 D Daimie OP Pikka bird
OP Daimie Pikka bird D Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10	The bug is active again, it also occurs in mIRC 6.33 but not in 6.32 or lower.

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Daimie #204719 29/09/08 08:01 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,482 London, UK Khaled Hoopy frood
Khaled Hoopy frood Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,482 London, UK	This was due to the fonts being sized incorrectly in older versions, which made them appear larger. With a number of character sets this resulted in the characters being chopped at the top or bottom. The newer versions of mIRC resolve this issue, however it means that you need to use slightly larger font settings to view the same size text :-)

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Khaled #204732 29/09/08 08:01 PM
Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10 D Daimie OP Pikka bird
OP Daimie Pikka bird D Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10	Originally Posted By: Khaled This was due to the fonts being sized incorrectly in older versions, which made them appear larger. With a number of character sets this resulted in the characters being chopped at the top or bottom. The newer versions of mIRC resolve this issue, however it means that you need to use slightly larger font settings to view the same size text :-) Hello Khaled and thank you for your hard work on mIRC! To show my support I recently bought my own copy of mIRC The font change you made in 6.33 isn't working for UTF-8 as it shrinks the non-ascii characters vertically (but not horizontally!) which makes the characters out of proportion and very hard to read even if you increase the font size. Something causes the mIRC (6.34 & 6.33) to switch between the old and new font behaviour (of non-ascii text) so please note this shrinking problem is not active all the time. If you cant figure out what causes this, please at least implement the old font behaviour as an option in the mIRC settings for the future mIRC versions, thank you.

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Daimie #207830 03/01/09 11:34 PM
Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10 D Daimie OP Pikka bird
OP Daimie Pikka bird D Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 10	Any plans to add an option for the old font behaviour? Thanks!

Re: Major UTF8 text size bug Daimie #207833 04/01/09 02:38 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada A argv0 Hoopy frood
argv0 Hoopy frood A Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada	Is Khaled's proposed solution of increasing your font size not working? - argv[0] on EFnet #mIRC - "Life is a pointer to an integer without a cast"

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