[iyonix-support] Re: Iconising files

  • From: David Pitt <pittdj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 06:22:40 +0100

In message <Marcel-1.53-0524113210-b49pErr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

>> >> In message <3c26fa2b4e.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>           Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> >> > It's 100% reproducible on this machine trying to iconise
>> >> > www.everestmax.com or any of its sub-pages in NetSurf. Other NetSurf
>> >> > pages seem to iconise OK, and everestmax in Oregano2 iconises as it
>> >> > should do. Odd!

> My collegue has pointed out the the most likely cause is something to do
> with the text in the title bar, normally the text under the icon of an
> iconised window is the first word in the title bar i.e. the characters up
> until the first space.

It is a bit more slippery than that.

This disappears on iconising :-

<html>
<head><title>EVERESTMAX</title></head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

This is OK :-

<html>
<head><title>EVERESTMA</title></head>
<body>
</body>
</html>


> Maybe these windows have hard spaces, other control or top bit set
> charcters.

There are none in the source.

> Variations between peoples machine may be occuringing due different
> character sets or fonts being used.

Well spotted. I use Homerton.Medium at the default size. Change that 
to Corpus.Medium at the default size and the issue goes away.
-- 
David Pitt.

Computing with RISC OS.
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