Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 71702
gdm renders finnish language characters oddly
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:45:35 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-11 i686; Nav) Description of problem: Weird characters on gdm login screen when Finnish language is used. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run gdm with system that has Finnish locale as default. Actual Results: gdm starts normaly. At the bottom of screen there these three menus ("language", "session" and "system", I guess, haven't looked in english.) In finnish language there should read: Kieli Istunto Jdrjestelmd but those d (a with two dots on it) letters are rendered weirdly. Now there reads: Kieli Istunto JC$rjestelmC$ (I have heard that C$ is UTF-8 presentation of d letter, I don't know.) Expected Results: At the bottom of screen there should read: Kieli Istunto Jdrjestelmd Additional info: gdm-2.4.0.7-2 X-Chat has similar problem. If I select Finnish as system language from gdm menu, those characters are shown weirdly on IRC. If I select system default language on gdm, X-Chat shows d, v and e letters correctly.
Your bugtracking system does not understand 8-bit characters. I have to make picture about this.
owen is this the same as the bug about japanese?
Created attachment 71245 [details] Description of this bug.
I hope that picture makes some sense, as that textual bug report stripped to 7-bits makes no sense. Where I can make bug report of bugzilla?
gdm issue fixed in redhat-artwork-0.37-2 There is a bugzilla product in bugzilla. (Not sure if we'll fix this particular issue unless it trickles down from upstream bugzilla, but it wouldn't hurt to file a bug if it isn't one already there.)
I hope that redhat-artwork-0.37-2 will work, otherwise I'll reopen this bug. Ok, and I found already open bug about bugzilla: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70443
OK, original bug is now fixed, but when I type password on gdm prompt it will print weird characters. They look like this: |----| | 25 | | CF | |----| I guess that is some keycode, but password lenght should not be displayed. (pkoistin@cs.hit.fi is no longer valid email of mine, thoron@iki.fi is.)
That's a different bug, already in as #72433