Bug 23479
Summary: | question marks instead of accented characters - OUTPUT_CHARSET | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | stano |
Component: | installer | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-05-09 16:18:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
stano
2001-01-06 10:45:30 UTC
eh - the bugzilla form messes the accented characters too - the 'a' and 'u' are with accute accent in the next to last line: .. Adresa'r alebo su'bor ... Assigning to a developer. setting OUTPUT_CHARSET globally will break things. If you do something like "LANG=ja_JP.eucJP gnome-termintal" when it is set to OUTPUT_CHARSET=ISO-8859-2 globally you'll get '?' everywhere for the menus. That is, OUTPUT_CHARSET overrides the default charset when programs properly call setlocale() Hmm, this is what I was afraid of and I don't see any easy way to fix this in a way that pleases everyone :-( Is the _optional_ OUTPUT_CHARSET setting in the installer a possible alternative? Most users of iso8859-1,2 (dunno about cyrillic environments) won't be using the scenario you have described and if they set the LANG manually before calling some program, they can also unset the OUTPUT_CHARSET. Anyway, it would be good to mention this behaviour somewhere where the user selecting another locale than US one does see it. The only real fix is to have any program that uses i18n (even strerror et al) call setlocale. Is this issue considered one that we won't fix? I guess so. |