Bug 103493 - less.sh/less.csh should not set JLESSCHARSET for UTF-8 locales
Summary: less.sh/less.csh should not set JLESSCHARSET for UTF-8 locales
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: less
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-09-01 06:57 UTC by Jungshik Shin
Modified: 2017-02-23 19:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-02-23 19:19:49 UTC
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Description Jungshik Shin 2003-09-01 06:57:36 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701

Description of problem:

I use ko_KR.UTF-8 locale and found that all Korean characters were turned by
less to '&&&' after upgrading to RH 9.0. It turned out that
/etc/profile.d/less.sh set JLESSCHARSET to 'ko' for any ko* locale. I changed
the script not to set it if I'm running in UTF-8 locale and it works fine. A
similar fix is necessary for /etc/profile.d/less.csh


I don't know whether RH 9.0 supports UTF-8 locales for CJK. I had used  my own
CJK locales for RH 8.0 before upgrading to RH 9.0 and I didn't bother to check
if RH 9.0 came with CJK UTF-8 locales. If it still uses legacy codeset t for
CJK, it's very much disappointing. Anyway, in that case, this bug would be invalid. 

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set LC_ALL to ko_KR.UTF-8 or ja_JP.UTF-8
2.spawn a new shell or a new terminal 
3.try to view any UTF-8 files (with non-ASCII characters) 
with less

    

Actual Results:  All non-ascii characters are turned to &'s

Expected Results:  Non-ascii characters should be displayed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jungshik Shin 2003-09-01 07:00:45 UTC
see also bug 88868 comment #5


Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2003-09-01 14:32:00 UTC
The current less.[c]sh files parse the LC_ALL and LANG variables differently 

Comment 3 Jungshik Shin 2003-09-01 14:55:44 UTC
Does it check LC_CTYPE as well? It has to.


Comment 4 Jindrich Novy 2005-10-19 09:35:17 UTC
This works for me with the current less.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2017-02-19 19:11:42 UTC
libreoffice-5.1.6.2-7.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-3453b4764a

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2017-02-20 20:23:10 UTC
libreoffice-5.1.6.2-7.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-3453b4764a

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2017-02-23 19:19:49 UTC
libreoffice-5.1.6.2-7.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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