Bug 173309 - Hexviewer does not display ASCII chars anymore
Summary: Hexviewer does not display ASCII chars anymore
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mc
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jindrich Novy
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-16 08:07 UTC by Enrico Scholz
Modified: 2013-07-02 23:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-11-16 13:57:10 UTC
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Description Enrico Scholz 2005-11-16 08:07:05 UTC 
Description of problem:

The Hexviewer in the embedded viewer does not show the printable ASCII chars
anymore but prints only '.'.


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

mc-4.6.1a-0.14.FC4


How reproducible:

100%


Steps to Reproduce:
0. open an xterm
1. 'mc'
2. move to a file and F3
3. press F4
  
Actual results:

In the right column, only '.' are displayed


Expected results:

Right column shows printable chars and replaces only the non-printable ones by '.'


Additional info:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2005-11-16 13:57:10 UTC 
Ok, it was caused by a bug in the UTF-8 patch. The original code tried to
display the UTF-8 characters even in the hexviewing/editing mode, what's pretty
odd. I removed this ill-designed feature to display the characters correctly.
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2005-11-16 18:50:29 UTC 
From User-Agent: XML-RPC

mc-4.6.1a-0.15.FC4 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.
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