Bug 772855

Summary:	en_US.utf8 locale doesn't seem to work correctly, e.g., when displaying man pages
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Wayne Pollock <pollock>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jeff Law <law>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	fweimer, jakub, law, pollock, schwab
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Description Wayne Pollock 2012-01-10 06:51:07 UTC

Description of problem:

I use PuTTY SSH client v0.62, with UTF-8 translation.  I noticed some man pages looking strange:

LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 man iptables  # look at the hypens, e.g., in the "raw" paragraph

LC_ALL=C.utf8 man iptables  # compare with above; all looks correct.

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

Linux myservername 3.1.6-1.fc16.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Dec 21 23:01:09 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

man-pages-3.32-14.fc16.noarch
glibc-common-2.14.90-24.fc16.4.i686  # locale stuff

$ locale -V
locale (GNU libc) 2.14.90

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 man
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Actual results:
squares or weird symbols

Expected results:
hyphens, curly-quotes, and other symbols should show as expected.

Additional info:

May be related to bug #98736.  This seems more a problem with en_US than with utf8.

Comment 1 Jeff Law 2012-02-14 20:01:04 UTC

I did a fresh F16 i686 install using the installation repo & updates repo and have been unable to reproduce this problem.

I've got the same glibc, glibc-common and man-pages.

I get the same man page results for en_US.utf8, C.utf8 and with no explicit locale.  In each case the "raw" paragraph looks fine.

I then installed putty and used that to ssh into the box and tried the same tests and again all the pages were fine.

I'm closing this as WORKSFORME.