Callum Macdonald » garbled chars http://www.callum-macdonald.com Callum on life Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:10:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Zend Studio garbled chars fix http://www.callum-macdonald.com/2008/11/29/zend-studio-garbled-chars-fix/ http://www.callum-macdonald.com/2008/11/29/zend-studio-garbled-chars-fix/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:45:22 +0000 Callum http://www.callum-macdonald.com/?p=782 Continue reading →]]> Following my post about installing Zend Studio 5.5.1 on Ubuntu 8.10, Gyorgy posted a comment about a problem with garbled characters. I had noticed the problem myself, but only briefly, I don’t tend to work with very large files. As yet, I hadn’t gotten a chance to look into it.

I spent some time on it today. Through this I found this thread discussing a similar problem with Netbeans. User cesc posted their fix (workaround?) which others reported to work. I figured the same option might work in Zend.

After a little digging, I have found that this approach works for me. I’ve tested with a 3k+ line file, and the bug is resolved. I’m running Zend Studio 5.5.1, Ubuntu 8.10, Sun’s JRE build 1.6.0_10-b33, compiz disabled. Zend appears to work with compiz enabled, but scrolling a 3k+ line file is very slow.

I edited file /opt/ZendStudio-5.5.1/bin/ZDE at line 1543 and added this:

# Hack in this option to solve garbled text problem as per:
# http://tinyurl.com/zendchrfix
options="$options -Dsun.java2d.pmoffscreen=false"

Here’s a patch for those who like that sort of thing. Hopefully this will help others with the same issue.

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