FS#5078 - mcedit broken

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jaroslaw Swierczynski (swiergot) - Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 21:36 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 21:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

The mc-4.6.1-utf8.patch doesn't apply cleanly which makes mcedit not functioning properly when (at least) Polish letters (ISO-8859-2) are used. Please either fix the patch (I hope the patch doesn't break mcedit with Polish letters by design) or remove it.
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 21:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 08 February 2007, 02:39 GMT
Is this still an issue?
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 14 April 2007, 17:13 GMT
replace mc with mc-utf8 from community
Comment by Nagy Gabor (combo) - Saturday, 14 April 2007, 17:15 GMT
Yes, the same bug for me (hu_HU.iso8859-2) with ő,ű characters.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Sunday, 04 May 2008, 14:58 GMT
there are many issues with mc since the package hasnt had a stable release for nearly 3 years now. maybe it would be better to replace the package in extra with the latest snapshot that is almost a year old and then deal with any issues although i doubt any of them will be solved since almost all are UTF-8 related and AFAICT mc hasnt gone a long way regarding that part. i have used the snapshot instead of the extra package for a while and i found it totally useable. link:http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/snapshots/ .
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 03:18 GMT
Should be fixed in mc-4.6.1-5 in testing (i686 packages will be available later). Please note that you will also need to update gpm and all packages using it by their version in testing.

Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 16:44 GMT
Re-opened for feedback.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 15:52 GMT
Feedback from anyone?
Comment by Nagy Gabor (combo) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 16:09 GMT
Still not good at all (I've just tested it).
Comment by Nagy Gabor (combo) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 16:13 GMT
Ups, forget it, I did "pacman -S mc", which is 4.6.1-4, the version from testing seems OK.
Comment by Nagy Gabor (combo) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 16:21 GMT
Oh, no, this is still not perfect! Sorry. ő,ű is still bogus. I can see Q instead of ő, q instead of ű, but the edited file is OK (viewed cat foo.txt).
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 17:13 GMT
Have you tried mc-utf8 from community? I have used it as a template for the package in testing. So if it works with mc-utf8, it should work for mc in testing unless I missed something.

Although the mc in testing in not perfect, is is as good or better than the one in extra? I'm asking because I might move the mc testing package in extra and have this bug fixed later.

Roman: Andy said that you were interested in maintaining mc. That's why I added you to the assignee. Could you look into this?
Comment by Nagy Gabor (combo) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 17:57 GMT
Yes, I confirm, that mc-utf8 has the same bug.

I'm using mc-hunarch from aur. It is heavily patched, but it works fine here. Maybe we should give a look its utf8 patches...
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 23:48 GMT
This patch might the one fixing this problem:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mc-hunarch/mc-hunarch/00-83-utf8-editor-8bit-code.patch
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Monday, 04 August 2008, 19:15 GMT
Is this still an issue in mc 4.6.1-5 ?
Comment by Nagy Gabor (combo) - Friday, 15 August 2008, 11:16 GMT
"Is this still an issue in mc 4.6.1-5 ?"
Yes.
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Friday, 15 August 2008, 20:52 GMT
The two users having a problem, Jaroslaw and Nagy, are apparently using ISO-8859-2, yet all comments are talking about utf8. I am a bit confused.

I used to say "why don't you just use utf8?" (even if it still had some problems with some locales, people need to start using it so that it can be improved), but then I read this : http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/b/archives/2006/08/26/T20_16_06/ and it made me think :)
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Friday, 05 December 2008, 11:43 GMT
What's the status of this issue?
Comment by Nagy Gabor (combo) - Friday, 05 December 2008, 21:27 GMT
RedShift: The bug still exists.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Friday, 02 January 2009, 21:16 GMT
mc is now continuing development in http://midnight-commander.org/ Please file a bug report upstream
Comment by Nagy Gabor (combo) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 15:30 GMT
"This patch might the one fixing this problem: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mc-hunarch/mc-hunarch/00-83-utf8-editor-8bit-code.patch"

Unfortunately that doesn't fix our problem.

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