Bug 1146811

Summary:	less fails to display some UTF-8 characters properly
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marko Myllynen <myllynen>
Component:	less	Assignee:	Jozef Mlich <jmlich>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	21	CC:	hhorak, jmlich, lnie
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Fixed In Version:	less-471-1.fc21	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Marko Myllynen 2014-09-26 06:46:11 UTC

Description of problem:
less fails to display some UTF-8 characters properly while e.g. emacs and vim do not have issues with them.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
less-458-13.fc21

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo $'\u20bd' > a
2. less a

Actual results:
less shows a character code in place of the character.

Expected results:
less shows the character properly.

Additional information:
There are some other characters in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/README.eurlatgr which are having the same issue but are older than U+20BD (which is part of Unicode 7.0.0).

Comment 1 Jozef Mlich 2014-09-29 07:38:28 UTC

Recently, upstream developer Mark Nudelman reworked construction of Unicode tables from Unicode database. This change is available in less 466 or newer. However, it is still in beta phase. 

I have prepared the COPR repository with most recent less version for testing purposes. See https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jmlich/playground/builds/. In my opinion, it is not very wise to push this into fedora right now. 

If you really need that function, please prepare patch similar to patch provided in #1074489. Otherwise, please wait to next release of less or use package from COPR repository.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-01-05 09:09:13 UTC

less-471-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/less-471-1.fc21

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-01-06 06:05:36 UTC

Package less-471-1.fc21:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing less-471-1.fc21'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-0188/less-471-1.fc21
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 4 lnie 2015-01-06 06:07:47 UTC

less-471-1.fc21 works

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-01-10 11:56:44 UTC

less-471-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.