Bug 107185
| Summary: | national caracters mismatch | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | ketil vestby <ketil_v> |
| Component: | basesystem | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-01-21 23:08:37 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
ketil vestby
2003-10-15 18:14:26 UTC
The missing lines in this bugreport is due to Mozillas inability to forward anything written in textboxes, with the national caracters in the text. I find it hard to believe that this bug has not been entered before, but I did not get anything remotely related to it when entering the word "national" in Bugzilla. Your web page doesn't define the charset in use. Without that, there's no way to guess what you're intending. The charset in use is the default charset I got when installing the distro. In addition do the first tag, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> tell about the charset used. If you change URL from .../5th/... to .../4th/... you will get the page with start - tag defining iso-8859-1 (and a slightly different layout). The charset I wrote the examples with is RedHats default charset, I am intending to get the same functionality I had in the pre 8 - distros: Ability to use the Norwegian chars. What I try to say is that in RH8 and 9 there is a mismatch somewhere, the missing line in the initial report is just one of the symptoms, I think the problem is in a really fundamental place. It looks as if there is a US charset lurking somewhere, causing problems. I want to be able to use RH9 for simple things as viewing webpages with w3m or Konqueror, or downloading files with GFtp, without having conversation - problems because I read, write and save files using Norwegian chars. The other distros can it, and RH could do it previously. To tell in small portions: This problem is not related to a specific product, it is related to a charset - mismatch or misconfiguration in the 8 and 9 versions of RedHat. If I use norwegian chars in filenames the name get destroyed if I try to transfer the file to or from any computer running RedHat 8 or 9. The problem I tried to illustrate in HTML is related to a problem in handling and viewing information in these two distros - I got a document from a MAC yesterday, by mail, and all words with Norwegian chars in them where messed up because of this problem. The differences between the two examples in the HTML - document was for describing the symptom. On the line below is the three Norewgian chars: æøå I don't think xml charset tags are relevant to HTML files; you need meta charset
tags in the <head> section of the document. For example:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
The default charset in Red Hat Linux 8 and later is UTF-8. If you try to treat
UTF-8 encoded text, or filenames, or whatever, as ISO8859-1, it *will* look
different.
If that were true, as RedHat states in the release notes and manuals, adding the tag will make both the upper and lower example of HTML look the same. It dont. I have added the tag to the .../5th/... example, but it still looks as bad as before. I still believe that there seemes to be another charset, or a limitation of the utf-8 charset lurking somewhere. If not, the two examples would not differ. $ telnet ketil.homeunix.net 80 Trying 193.217.190.197... Connected to ketil.homeunix.net (193.217.190.197). Escape character is '^]'. HEAD http://ketil.homeunix.net/5th/test.html HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 04:59:28 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_layout/3.0.3 Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:57:18 GMT ETag: "180a-12e-3f8d8a7e" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 302 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Your web server is adding the charset, it appears. |