Bug 81325
Summary: | 8-bit characters do not work on the console or xterm | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Keith Briscoe <cheeth> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | phoebe | CC: | notting |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-01-09 03:59:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Keith Briscoe
2003-01-08 03:27:10 UTC
What does your /etc/sysconfig/i18n look like? Contents below: LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" Bog standard config, out of the box. I'll come up with a good demo file to demonstrate the problem (but I'm sleepy now and it'll have to wait) No. The fact that Unicode and ISO-8859-1 contain the characters at the same position doesn't mean that the encoding is the same. Unicode is encoded using UTF-8, which uses a different way to represent characters withcodes > 127 (If it were compatible with iso-8859-1, there would be no way to add other characters!). NOTABUG IMHO, you can use iconv to convert the file, or revert to non-UTF-8 locale. Thanks very much. I know just enough about this to know what you're talking about, but not much more ;) I'll check out the iconv program. Looks very useful. I agree that this is probably NOTABUG. |