Bug 58971

Summary: pico is broken for Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Nakai <ynakai>
Component: pineAssignee: Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Multibyte fix for pico none

Description Nakai 2002-01-28 19:50:35 UTC 
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Description of problem:
pico editor is broken for CJK multibytes and really shameless
because RHL product manuals explains how to use pico but
Asian users cannot use it.

A Patch is available.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Input Japanese
2.shoot
3.
	

Additional info:
Comment 1 Nakai 2002-01-28 19:51:19 UTC 
Created attachment 43816 [details]
Multibyte fix for pico
Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-01-29 06:31:31 UTC 
Patch added to pine 4.44-4 in rawhide.
Comment 3 terbak 2002-03-17 00:04:18 UTC 
This patch is way broken with pine: the word-wrapping is broken, backspace on 
first column does not bring the text up one line, and pine crashes when writing 
a bit.
Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2002-03-17 16:37:37 UTC 
Indeed.  Patch removed from pine-4.44-6 release for stabilization.
At this point I will not permit this patch to be included as it can
interfere with the standard operation of PINE.  Such enhancements
should be made by submitting patches to the PINE team themselves.

Thanks terbak for tracking the wordwrap problem down.
Comment 5 Nakai 2002-03-18 07:51:31 UTC 
I'll continue for the future product release.
Comment 6 Mike A. Harris 2002-11-01 06:56:22 UTC 
Closing bug WONTFIX

pine/pico aren't true open source software, and dedicating resources
to issues like this isn't a priority because of that, in particular
when there are tonnes of other editors available that can be used
instead.