Bug 71108 - Sawfish has problems with UTF-8 locales
Summary: Sawfish has problems with UTF-8 locales
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sawfish
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-08 20:24 UTC by Celso K. Webber
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-01-13 04:03:52 UTC
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Description Celso K. Webber 2002-08-08 20:24:36 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020712

Description of problem:
If the LANG environment VAR is set up as "pt_BR.UTF-8" at /etc/sysconfig/i18n,
as done by the installer, many accented characters appear under sawfish as
"double chars".

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Limbo and choose a language (such as pt_BR) which has accented characters
2.Check /etc/sysconfig/i18n to see if the ".UTF-8" was appended to the country
code name
3.Log in to sawfish and observe chars in international messages.
	

Actual Results:  The messages get corrupted, shere every accented character
appear as a "double char" (possibly its UNICODE byte pair).

Expected Results:  Accented chars should (possibly) appear right, or LANG=pt_BR
should be used instead of LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8

Additional info:

This happened also on RHL 7.3. Maybe the UTF-8 scheme is inappropriate for
accented chars, or maybe its just the case of adjusting things.

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-13 04:03:52 UTC
Upstream as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103328



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