Bug 24463

Summary:

Weird character translations

Product:

[Retired] Red Hat Linux

Reporter:

Michal Jaegermann <michal>

Component:

less

Assignee:

Karsten Hopp <karsten>

Status:

CLOSED RAWHIDE

QA Contact:

Aaron Brown <abrown>

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high

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medium

Version:

7.1

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teg

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i386

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2001-01-31 22:48:52 UTC

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Norwegian text	none

Description Michal Jaegermann 2001-01-20 18:38:22 UTC

In a gnome-terminal window where font used is from koi8-r charset
'less' precedes every string of cyrilic characters with an uppper
case 'A'.  This effect is at its best if one tries to send an output
from 'od -c' into less. :-)  Explicit changes in LANG environment
variable (I tried a few, including ru_RU) do not have any visible
effect apart of things like LANG=C where various characters are treated
as binary.  OTOH using -K with various 8-bit encodings, including
'less -K latin1',  removes any display surprises regardless of a value
of LANG.  The above is likely to have a disconcerting effect on
"uninitiated".

If there is no handy test input around a file attached to #16978
can be used for such purposes.

   Michal
   michal

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2001-01-22 15:22:56 UTC

less uses the variables LESSCHARSET and JLESSCHARSET to determine the
charset. Please set one of those to koi8-r for the time being. 
It seems that the japanese patch breaks things, we will look for an solution.

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-01-31 22:44:33 UTC

It also breaks latin1 charactersets... it puts an "A" in front of sequences of
non-ASCII characters.

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-01-31 22:48:49 UTC

Created attachment 8619 [details]
Norwegian text

Comment 4 Karsten Hopp 2001-02-01 16:26:17 UTC

I inserted an fallback if no charset could be found. Seems to work now,
but please test less-358-14.i386.rpm and reopen this bug if this breaks
anything.

Comment 5 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-02-01 16:27:41 UTC

It seems to work nicely now.