Bug 699627

Summary:	Bad character encoding
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pierre Blavy <pierreblavy>
Component:	xorg-x11-server	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Version:	15	CC:	cwickert, mcepl, mcepl, xgl-maint
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OS:	Linux
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Description Pierre Blavy 2011-04-26 08:20:57 UTC

Description of problem:
éàê... characters are not shown proprely
screenshot here : http://img191.imageshack.us/i/lxterminal.png/


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Current version (26-april-2011)

How reproducible:
Always



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Display text with accent in lxterminal (ex : french + yum update)



Actual results:
Text from apps fails.
If I type éàê with the keyboard text is displayed properly

Expected results:
Display character properly.
I'm suspecting some encoding issues, but there is no option in lxterminal to choose encoding format. Can you please fix auto-detection or add some box to choose by hand the right encoding format.

Additional info:
No cats jump on the keyboard during this test

Comment 1 Christoph Wickert 2011-04-26 10:48:08 UTC

Does this happen only with lxterminal or other terminals like gnome-terminal roxterm, lilyterm or sakura, too?

Please give me the content of /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and /etc/sysconfig/i18n and the output of the command "locale". Thanks!

Comment 2 Pierre Blavy 2011-04-26 11:54:13 UTC

Hi Christoph

I've got the same bug with xterm. I haven't installed the others terminals, if it's important to test with all the others you've cited, just ask.


cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
KEYTABLE="fr-latin9"
MODEL="pc105"
LAYOUT="fr"
VARIANT="latin9"

cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Comment 3 Christoph Wickert 2011-06-17 22:08:53 UTC

Sorry for the late response.

It's definitely not lxterminal or vte, it must be deeper in the X stack. Reassigning to xorg-x11 as I don't know a better alternative.

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2011-06-21 20:17:38 UTC

Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available, and any files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)
* output of the command
evtest /dev/input/<particular file corresponding to your keyboard>
(you'll find in /var/log/Xorg.0.log which one it is), and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 5 Pierre Blavy 2012-01-16 08:43:57 UTC

I've upgraded my distribution to Fedora 16, and I'm not having this bug anymore.

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2012-01-16 08:52:14 UTC

Thank you for letting us know.