Bug 156740 - screen doesn't work correctly with iso-88591 charset in gnome-terminal: prints garbage for scandinavic characters
Summary: screen doesn't work correctly with iso-88591 charset in gnome-terminal: print...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: screen
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
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Assignee: Petr Rockai
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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: 156731 156733 156734 156735 156737 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-05-03 19:17 UTC by Toni Willberg
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-05-04 08:44:00 UTC
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Description Toni Willberg 2005-05-03 19:17:58 UTC 
Description of problem:

inside screen user can't type åäöÃÃÃ, it prints garbage instead. This happens
with running screen in gnome-terminal with iso-8859-1 or -15 charset, but works
nicely with utf-8.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 screen-4.0.2-8
 glibc-2.3.5-0.fc3.1
 ncurses-5.4-16


How reproducible:
 always

Steps to Reproduce:
 1. launch gnome-terminal, switch to iso-8859-1 or -15
 2. type åäöÃÃÃ
  
Actual results:
 ����

Expected results:
 åäöÃÃÃ

Additional info:
 IMO a blocker bug; renders screen unusable
Comment 1 Toni Willberg 2005-05-03 19:19:38 UTC 
Typing åäöÃÃà _outside_ screen with same gnome-terminal (and it's settings
including charset) works nicely.

Please provide additional debugging information if required.
Comment 2 Toni Willberg 2005-05-03 19:22:18 UTC 
*** Bug 156731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Toni Willberg 2005-05-03 19:23:55 UTC 
*** Bug 156733 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Toni Willberg 2005-05-03 19:25:27 UTC 
*** Bug 156734 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Toni Willberg 2005-05-03 19:27:25 UTC 
*** Bug 156735 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Toni Willberg 2005-05-03 19:31:02 UTC 
*** Bug 156737 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Toni Willberg 2005-05-03 19:35:06 UTC 
(sorry for the dupes, Bugzilla has a bug that caused it to give internal server
error, and I didn't realize the inserted the bugs into the database anyway)
Comment 8 Petr Rockai 2005-05-04 07:36:27 UTC 
Works for me in FC3. I suppose you set right encoding for screen, right? As    
in, if your gnome-terminal is iso-8859-1, you should run    
LC_ALL=en_US.iso-8859-1 screen (or analogous). The default settings is utf-8,   
so if you have utf-8 set up in locale and something else in gnome-terminal,   
it's pretty likely to break, yes (and that's actually not a bug IMO...).  And 
please next time be more careful with bugzilla, i received loads of mails 
about this...
Comment 9 Toni Willberg 2005-05-04 08:44:00 UTC 
(sorry about the mailflood again, I have notified the bugzilla admin about the bug)

It seems that I wasn't aware I should be setting LC_ALL manually, as it seems to
work without outside screen.

After setting LC_ALL=en_US.iso-8859-1 I get the characters correctly inside
screen too. There seems to be still some issues in Irssi, but that's
out-of-topic here. :)

So, I'll close this as NOTABUG as it was an illegal user error. ;)
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