Bug 219912 - Yelp fails to display man pages encoded in utf-8
Summary: Yelp fails to display man pages encoded in utf-8
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yelp
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthew Barnes
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-12-16 09:55 UTC by Julian Sikorski
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-10-02 16:21:39 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
man screenshot, works OK (59.01 KB, image/png)
2007-03-13 21:11 UTC, Julian Sikorski
no flags Details
Yelp screenshot, displays garbage characters (80.77 KB, image/png)
2007-03-13 21:11 UTC, Julian Sikorski
no flags Details


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GNOME Bugzilla 473040 0 None None None Never

Description Julian Sikorski 2006-12-16 09:55:31 UTC
Description of problem:
Man pages encoded in unicode are rendered wrong, some funny characters are
displayed instead of ones that are encoded with two bytes. I am running rawhide
yelp under fc6 (it was pulled when I installed firefox 2.0).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yelp-2.16.2-1.fc7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install man-pages-pl
2. LANG=pl_PL.utf-8 yelp
3. Strony podrędznika -> Aplikacje -> bzip2
  
Actual results:
Dual-byte characters are busted

Expected results:
Man page should be displayed properly

Additional info:
Both man and khelpcenter have no troubles rendering the man page.

Comment 1 Julian Sikorski 2007-03-13 21:09:56 UTC
Bump. I am attaching the screenshots to ensure the problem is understood. yelp
2.18.0 still suffers from this issue.

Comment 2 Julian Sikorski 2007-03-13 21:11:14 UTC
Created attachment 149986 [details]
man screenshot, works OK

Comment 3 Julian Sikorski 2007-03-13 21:11:57 UTC
Created attachment 149987 [details]
Yelp screenshot, displays garbage characters

Comment 4 Julian Sikorski 2007-08-26 12:42:26 UTC
Bump. Still present in yelp-2.18.1-5.fc7.x86_64.

Comment 5 Julian Sikorski 2007-09-18 14:44:41 UTC
Is anybody going to look into it? Either fix it, or stop shipping utf-8
manpages. I mean, honestly. I'd prefer to read an english manpage than trying to
understand this babble.

Comment 6 Matthew Barnes 2007-10-02 16:21:39 UTC
Moving this upstream.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473040


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