Bug 90643

Summary: malformed UTF-8 header
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Klaus Schuster <hostmaster>
Component: perlAssignee: Warren Togami <wtogami>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Klaus Schuster 2003-05-11 20:11:40 UTC
Description of problem:

RH9 (german) got an malformed UTF8 header

LANG settings are :

LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="de_DE.UTF-8:de_DE:de"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Example error message :

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6e, 
immediately after start byte 0xf6)

German messages are looking very strange :

Tr?mmer knnte m?32?

Heavy problems regarding some programs who are unable to run
properly regarding that Malformed UTF8 header

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

perl-5.8.0-88

How reproducible:

german keyboard, german software

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

see above

Expected results:

no malformed UTF-8 header

Additional info:

see above