Bug 75378

Summary:	Minus signs cut out of man pages in gnome-terminal windows pastes wrong back into gnome-terminal
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Nathan G. Grennan <redhat-bugzilla>
Component:	vte	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	sflory
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Description Nathan G. Grennan 2002-10-07 20:51:45 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20021004

Description of problem:
If I cut -umount out of a man page with gnome-terminal it comes out as
?^?^?umount in another gnome-terminal window.



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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open two gnome-terminal windows
2. man sash
3. Search for umount
4. Cut -umount
5. Paste it in the other gnome-terminal window
	

Actual Results:  ?^?^?umount

Expected Results:  -umount

Additional info:

Works fine from gnome-terminal to galeon

Comment 1 Samuel Flory 2002-10-10 16:00:03 UTC

  This also an issue with xterm.  The minus signs aren't displayed in xterm.  In
fact if you paste a man page minus from gnome-terminal to xterm.  It's not
displayed either.  Pasting to Eterm results in this "\x{2212}".

Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-10-15 01:19:59 UTC

The text is copied in the current locale (which by default is probably UTF-8). 
If the application which is running in the second window can't handle data in
the same format, then it's actually a bug in the receiving application (if it's
a terminal emulator, it'll actually be the app running in it).  If you're
pasting onto the command line, it'd be useful to know which shell you're using.

Comment 3 Nathan G. Grennan 2002-10-15 01:31:05 UTC

From two different gnome-terminals both with the same locale and using zsh in both.

As a workaround I am setting my /etc/sysconfig/i18n to 7.3 style aka pre-utf8.

Comment 4 Samuel Flory 2002-10-15 01:57:16 UTC

I see it with 2 gnome-terminals started from redhat menu under gnome running
bash.  It you alias man='env LANG=C man'.  The problem goes away.  It's not just
man that is screwed I've got at least 5 apps aliased like this.

Comment 5 Nathan G. Grennan 2004-08-20 05:36:02 UTC

Closing old bug