Bug 16978 - Charset changes non-effective
Summary: Charset changes non-effective
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: links
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 24459 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-08-26 02:10 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:28 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-06-02 15:02:37 UTC
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Compressed html file which is using koi8-r encoding (1.49 KB, application/octet-stream)
2000-08-26 02:12 UTC, Michal Jaegermann
no flags Details

Description Michal Jaegermann 2000-08-26 02:10:36 UTC
In an environment with properly sets fonts (in this particular
case lucidatypewriter in koi8-r encoding on gnome-terminal)
'cat', 'less', 'lynx' (and also 'netscape') will show up attached
text in a legible form but 'links' insists on using iso8859-1
encoding.  An explicit change of a language and character set
in a "Setup" menu does change a font and strings used for menus (!!)
but leaves text viewed useless and there is no apparent way
to change that.

I attach an html file from a Russian site which demonstrated the
problem.

  Michal

Comment 1 Michal Jaegermann 2000-08-26 02:12:30 UTC
Created attachment 3018 [details]
Compressed html file which is using koi8-r encoding

Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2000-08-26 02:20:39 UTC
For a more fun setting a character set to koi8-r, and back to iso 8859-1
(but not to iso 8859-2) makes the text suddenly readable although
assumed code page did not change at all.

Comment 3 Henri Schlereth 2001-01-20 09:30:51 UTC
This bug is from the previous beta-cycle. If this problem still exists please re-open it under beta-2 (Florence)

Comment 4 Michal Jaegermann 2001-01-20 18:13:56 UTC
Despite of "resolved and closed" status a behaviour remains exactly like
described in the original report.  Explicit changes of LANG are not effective.
Resubmitted for Florence beta2 as #24459.

Comment 5 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-01-20 18:14:31 UTC
*** Bug 24459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-01-20 18:17:16 UTC
Bug report sent to base package maintainer; maybe he has the time to fix this
before I do.


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