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Bug 160619

Summary:	message encoding not in UTF-8
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Lawrence Lim <llim>
Component:	kbd	Assignee:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
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Description Lawrence Lim 2005-06-16 05:24:03 UTC

Description of problem:
Converting the LC_MESSAGES for ru_RU locale to po format, noticed it was
encoding with koi8-r rather than UTF-8.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kbd-1.12-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.msgunfmt /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kbd.mo > kbd.po
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
charset=koi8-r

Expected results:
charset=UTF-8

Additional info:

[root@freeze ~]# more kbd.po
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: kbd 0.99\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 1999-10-08 20:28+0200\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 1999-03-15 09:36+0500\n"
"Last-Translator: QingLong <QingLong@Bolizm>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <RU>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmač 2005-06-16 07:50:45 UTC

That's true, but why is that a problem? libintl automatically converts
the character set:

(LC_ALL=ru_RU.UTF-8 setmetamode --help) produces valid UTF-8,
(LC_ALL=ru_RU setmetamode --help) produces valid ISO 8859-5.

Comment 2 Lawrence Lim 2005-06-17 02:02:49 UTC

Hi,
It was something that I came across while I was trying to determine why the
russian text in the console was not readable. Thanks for clarifying and closing
the bugs as NOTABUG.


Thanks.