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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030601 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 Description of problem: Nano cannot display or edit UTF-8 coded text properly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nano-1.2.1-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install nano from Severn beta 2. Type in some text using extended ascii characters 3. Use backspace to delete typed characters Actual Results: Backspace only deletes last byte of multibyte UTF-8 character, so last character on line gets corrupted to invalid UTF-8 sequence (shown as square). Also line length is calculated using byte count, not character count so cursor moves to right after last character on line when refreshing screen. Expected Results: Typed characters should be deleted. Additional info: Ok, this is problematic, unicode support for nano is only on design stage and implemented in version 1.3. There are several patches floating around that give some support for UTF-8 but those have not been accepted upstream. I understand that nano replaces pico that was removed from RHL as "simple" text editor, but in current stage nano cannot be used to, say write mail in any other language than english. It still might be useful to edit some config files or similar where only US-ASCII is used.
I don't think I'm supposed to ship a development version of nano -- we need to wait until 1.4 is released. I'll close this 'UPSTREAM' for now -- please remind me if necessary when nano 1.4 is released. If there's a backport of the UTF-8 support I suppose we could consider applying that?