Description of problem: Bug with display of win1251 files in UTF-8 locale. In internal viewer doesn't correctly display file with win-1251 charset. Version mc-4.6.1a-26.fc5. Locale -- LANG=en_US.UTF-8 In Midnight Commander: Options -> Display bits -> Input / display codepage = Windows 1251. Save setup, Exit from mc, run it again. Open file (attached one) with win-1251 charset by pressing F3. Press Ctrl-T, choose Windows 1251 -- NOTHING happens! Frankly, this feature in Midnight Commander in FC3 and FC4 didn't worked also. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mc-4.6.1a-26.fc5 I guess... How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In mc set Options -> Display bits -> Input / display codepage = Windows 1251. 2. Save setup, exit, run again (THIS STEP FOR SURE) 3. Open file with win1251 codepage charset by pressing F3. 4. Ctrl-T, choose Windows 1251 Actual results: None. Nothing changes. Doesn't coorectly display file. Just show dots instead of russian chars. Expected results: Correctly display file. Additional info: None.
Created attachment 135668 [details] Test file with one line in russian, created in Win1251 charset codepage.
One more important addition: If you rename file with win1251 charset to file.doc, mc shows it correctly. May be it'll help...
But not all the time, as I can see now...
Sorry for delay, could you please try this testing version, whether your problem is fixed by it? http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/files/mc-4.6.1a-28test.fc5.i386.rpm Thanks.
Sorry. Same old thing. In version mc-4.6.1a-28test.fc5.i386.rpm there is no change. If I open by F3 attached file, I can see only dots instead of russian letters. And Ctrl-T changes nothing. BUT! If I rename extension of file from .txt to .doc, by pressing F3 all russian letters are displayed correctly.
Yes, it works with the .doc file extension, because mc assumes that it's the Word document and runs catdoc or word2x to convert its contents to ASCII (and apparently in UTF-8 format).
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