FS#12485 - [mc] Wrong encoding in hint files.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Martin Špelina (shpelda) - Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 08:54 GMT
Last edited by Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227) - Friday, 12 February 2010, 23:54 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Midnight Commandeer (mc 4.6.1-5) has it's hint file for cs in wrong encoding.
It is expoected to be in UTF8, but is in ISO-Latin2.
fix is quite simple : iconv -f ISO-8859-2 -t UTF-8 /usr/share/mc/mc.hint.cs
I guess spanish one is wrong as well, as it;s encoded in ISO-8859-1.
I haven't checked others, but could be they;re in native encodings(not in utf) too.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
4.6.1-5
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
Just setup
LANG="cs_CZ.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="cs_CZ.UTF-8"
And run mc and check hints.
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Closed by  Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227)
Friday, 12 February 2010, 23:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Friday, 19 December 2008, 13:11 GMT
I suggest you also try http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22236 .Its an mc fork from people who got involved in mc development. Theyre Russian so they re particularly interested in UTF-8.
Even if it doesnt solve your problems you might want to add a bug report to their bugtracker. UTF-8 is normally not a feature of mc. The mc package in extra is already breaking the Archlinux philosophy with patches that add features.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Friday, 02 January 2009, 21:14 GMT
mc is now continuing development in http://midnight-commander.org/ . The slavaz branch i linked above is now merged upstream.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 03 October 2009, 11:10 GMT
Note that the issue is valid for many languages.

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