Bug 1141 – xconsole is not 8 bit clean

Bug 1141 - xconsole is not 8 bit clean

Summary:	xconsole is not 8 bit clean

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	XFree86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Preston Brown
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Reported:	1999-02-13 01:12 EST by Marc MERLIN
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-08-16 16:53:36 EDT
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Description Marc MERLIN 1999-02-13 01:12:47 EST

To reproduce: echo "resumi" > /dev/console

This is a problem insofar as I have some syslog messages
are redirected to the console, and my locale is set to
French, so syslog messages get butchered when I see them
in my xconsole.

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-03-12 18:10:59 EST

I was unable to replicate this problem in our test lab.

Comment 2 Marc MERLIN 1999-04-14 02:28:59 EDT

I tried again with starbuck's xconsole, and it's the same.
Here's a simple test case, please try it out:
echo -e 'a\na1i3\nb' > /dev/console
shows:
a
a13
b

note that 1 and 3 are not supposed to touch one another.

In case this should make a difference:
moremagic:~$ echo $LC_ALL
fr_FR
moremagic:~$ echo $LANG
fr

If you tell me this also works for you, I'll drop the case, and assume
something is broken on my side.

Comment 3 Marc MERLIN 1999-06-07 02:16:59 EDT

Ok, I tried again on a straight 6.0 install and the problem is really
there, I'm not sure why dkl wasn't able to reproduce the bug.

I simply did:
- startx (gdm is broken and doesn't chown the console to the user who
  logs in, so xconsole can't work. That's a separate problem though)
- launch xconsole
- echo ripertoire >/dev/console

What shows up on the xconsole is rpertoire...

Comment 4 Jay Turner 1999-06-29 14:10:59 EDT

Confirmed in test lab with XFree86-3.3.3.1-52

Comment 5 Preston Brown 1999-08-16 16:53:59 EDT

This will be fixed in the next release of XFree86.

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