Bug 155073 - Patch: runtime charset detection
Summary: Patch: runtime charset detection
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: snownews
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Zing
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: http://home.nycap.rr.com/nagaland/rpm...
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-04-15 23:38 UTC by Zing
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2005-10-03 19:41:53 UTC
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runtime charset detection (1.33 KB, patch)
2005-04-15 23:39 UTC, Zing 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Zing 2005-04-15 23:38:46 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2

Description of problem:
This patch allows runtime detection of the charset in use, rather than hard-coding snownew's character set at compile time.  Upstream requested this be integrated until a more final fix is done.  also see debian bug for more info:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=259376

i'll attach the patch...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
snownews-1.5.6.1-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run snownews in a non-utf8 terminal 

Actual Results:  incorrect char rendering

Expected Results:  correct char rendering

Additional info:
Comment 1 Zing 2005-04-15 23:39:46 UTC 
Created attachment 113264 [details]
runtime charset detection
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