Bug 75189

Summary: nedit not UTF-8 aware
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <robert>
Component: neditAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: 8.0CC: dwa
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.vermtech.de/nedit.gif
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Fixed In Version: 5.3-6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2003-12-05 13:18:48 UTC Type: ---
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chop off UTF-8 from locale if it exists none

Description Need Real Name 2002-10-05 08:56:51 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830

Description of problem:
nedit is not able to display german umlaut like |vd
The snapshot should display |vd

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start nedit
2.enter |vd
3.
	

Actual Results:  nedit displays it not correct

Expected Results:  nedit should display |vd

Additional info:
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2002-10-05 09:00:23 UTC 
If you start nedit like this: 
 
LANG=de_DE nedit 
 
I expect it will work.
Comment 2 JLapham 2003-06-01 15:20:51 UTC 
Tim-

Right.  See my earlier report on this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76248

"LANG=pt_BR nedit" work perfectly
"LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8 nedit" cannot display accented characters.

My question is this.

What should we do!???  We (portuguese speaking users of RH) want to use nedit
with our language, but unfortunately "pt_BR.UTF-8" is used by default on RH for us.

Help!

(Could neit have a wrapper script that strips off the damn ".UTF-8" part of the
LANG env variable?!!)
Comment 3 Need Real Name 2003-09-14 13:58:51 UTC 
Just to let you know.  The UTF problem lies in Motif.  If you link any against
OpenMotif, it cannot handle UTF and crashes when you try to use the file open
dialog.  No problem is reported with LessTif (though LessTif has many other
problems we don't want to go in here).

For NEdit 5.4, we've changed start up to lop off UTF-8 if it's in locale at all.
 It is currently in beta, but you can download from our website
(http://www.nedit.org).

We encourage all system vendors that bundle NEdit to join our discussion group
(develop) and participate in the beta.  Many of our bug reports are
reported against versions of NEdit that are built improperly (unstable versions
of LessTif or Motif) by system vendors.  We'd like to work with you to make sure
future releases are stable.
Comment 4 Carlos Rodrigues 2003-11-29 19:00:59 UTC 
This also happens in Fedora Core 1 (which ships nedit 5.3). I made a
small patch to do what nedit 5.4 does (chop off the UTF-8 part).
Comment 5 Carlos Rodrigues 2003-11-29 19:02:02 UTC 
Created attachment 96250 [details]
chop off UTF-8 from locale if it exists
Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2003-12-05 13:18:48 UTC 
Added this ugly hack to CVS.
Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2004-08-11 11:39:13 UTC 
*** Bug 129068 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***