Bug 100547 – minicom is not UTF-8 aware

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Bug 100547 - minicom is not UTF-8 aware

Summary:	minicom is not UTF-8 aware

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	minicom (Show other bugs)
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Version:	beta1
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Martin Stransky
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Duplicates:	81694 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2003-07-23 07:06 EDT by Milan Kerslager
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:56 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-07-18 09:38:34 EDT
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Screenshot of the UTF-8 non aware problem under Fedora Core 4 (62.34 KB, image/png) 2006-02-28 09:16 EST, Nicolas Scheibling	no flags	Details
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Description Milan Kerslager 2003-07-23 07:06:05 EDT

Minicom is unable to display UTF-8 characters in its own menu dialogs. My locale
is cs_CZ.UTF-8, try to enter configuration dialog (press CTRL+a).

Comment 1 Milan Kerslager 2003-07-23 07:07:05 EDT

*** Bug 81694 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2005-07-18 09:38:34 EDT

Adding support for UTF8 to minicom is difficult for us, because it uses its own
function for printing and managing window (scrolling, line breaking and so on...). 
Adding support for UTF8 means rewriting big parts of window.c and it causes
incompatibility with upstream package (e.g. UTF8 uses different size of
characters, minicom uses only one byte chars...).

This issue has been reported to upstream.

Comment 3 Nicolas Scheibling 2006-02-28 09:16:20 EST

Created attachment 125397 [details]
Screenshot of the UTF-8 non aware problem under Fedora Core 4

This bug have been reported to upstream since 05/04/2004 13:53

[ #300619 ] minicom can't cope with unicode
http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=300619&group_id=30018&atid=100031

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