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FS#28923 - [coreutils] UTF-8 Encoding problems in output

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Thursday, 15 March 2012, 10:01 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 15 March 2012, 14:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
coreutils programs shows a lot of ? in output/manpages when using other locales(tested with de_DE.UTF8). "Umlauts"(äöü) are fine, but chars like " ' - have only ? as output.
Seems to occur in all localized output and all man pages from coreutils package. No problem here with output from other progs from other packages...

Additional info:
* package version(s)
coreutils 8.15-1


Steps to reproduce:
rc.conf->LOCALE=de_DE.UTF8, CONSOLEFONT=lat9w-16
(locale.conf and locale-gen also setup correct)

% LANG=C cp -xxx
cp: missing file operand
Try `cp --help' for more information.

% cp -xxx
cp: Fehlendes Dateioperand
?cp --help? gibt weitere Informationen.
(? here is the utf8 symbol for a missing char)

Correctly output should be (de_DE.UTF8)
% cp -xxx
cp: Fehlendes Dateioperand
„cp --help“ gibt weitere Informationen.

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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 15 March 2012, 14:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  See comment
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Thursday, 15 March 2012, 10:10 GMT
Sorry, the mentioned output problems are only in TTY consoles, not in X-Terminals...
And it's not a problem with this version in testing, it also in current core version.

It's realy not a functional problem... I would say: Close this report...

//Edit: and coreutils is NOT in testing, i was confused with util-linux.
This is not my day today.... Close/delete it cause drunken reporter ;-)
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 15 March 2012, 14:25 GMT
It is widespread with anything using the "„" character. e.g.

> LANG=de_DE tar -zzzz
tar: Eine der Optionen �-Acdtrux� oder �--test-label� ist notwendig.
�tar --help� oder �tar --usage� gibt weitere Informationen.


Binary file de/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo matches
Binary file de/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo matches
Binary file de/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo matches
Binary file de/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo matches
Binary file de/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo matches
Binary file de/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo matches
Binary file de/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo matches


So it is probably a font setup issue (???). Anyway, it seems not a bug to me...

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