Bug 811801

Summary:	popt has problems with unicode characters
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo>
Component:	popt	Assignee:	Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	pmatilai, redhat-bugzilla
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Description Christoph Anton Mitterer 2012-04-12 01:57:30 UTC

Hi.

Popt has apparently problems with unicode characters.
I tried to include some in the descrip and argDescrip field of the
option table, e.g.
- either directly "foo“”bar"
- or escaped "foo\u201c\u201dbar"
and then using the auto help functionallity.

popt reacts quite strangely sometimes it justs works and the characters
are printed correctly, sometimes it however skips the unicode characters
and all between them, but not necessarily for all the unicode characters used
ie.
"\u201cfoo\u201d bar \u201cbaz\u201d"
may become
bar “bar”
when printed.


Cheers,
Chris.

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 17:17:54 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

Comment 2 Robert Scheck 2013-11-24 16:33:29 UTC

I am very sorry, but I do really not see how I could help here as Fedora is
downstream of popt. But http://rpm5.org/community/popt-devel/0268.html is a
forward of this request to upstream for discussions there.

Comment 3 Robert Scheck 2013-11-24 18:16:15 UTC

Upstream replied to this at http://rpm5.org/community/popt-devel/0280.html -
from my point of view, there is nothing left thus I am closing this report.
In case you disagree with me, feel free to subscribe popt-devel mailing list
at upstream and let us discuss your point directly with upstream.