Description of problem: less fails to display some UTF-8 characters properly while e.g. emacs and vim do not have issues with them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): less-458-13.fc21 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo $'\u20bd' > a 2. less a Actual results: less shows a character code in place of the character. Expected results: less shows the character properly. Additional information: There are some other characters in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/README.eurlatgr which are having the same issue but are older than U+20BD (which is part of Unicode 7.0.0).
Recently, upstream developer Mark Nudelman reworked construction of Unicode tables from Unicode database. This change is available in less 466 or newer. However, it is still in beta phase. I have prepared the COPR repository with most recent less version for testing purposes. See https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jmlich/playground/builds/. In my opinion, it is not very wise to push this into fedora right now. If you really need that function, please prepare patch similar to patch provided in #1074489. Otherwise, please wait to next release of less or use package from COPR repository.
less-471-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/less-471-1.fc21
Package less-471-1.fc21: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing less-471-1.fc21' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-0188/less-471-1.fc21 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
less-471-1.fc21 works
less-471-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.