Bug 71924 - UTF-8 characters displayed wrong in gdm panel
Summary: UTF-8 characters displayed wrong in gdm panel
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: gdm
Version: null
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 67217
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-20 09:17 UTC by Markku Kolkka
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:45 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-08-21 10:55:55 UTC
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Description Markku Kolkka 2002-08-20 09:17:18 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809

Description of problem:
My system is set up to use Finnish language (LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8). On the gdm
graphical greeter the third panel item has instead of "d" (LATIN SMALL LETTER A
WITH DIAERESIS) a pair of characters "C¤" (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH
TILDE + CURRENCY SIGN). This is a result of displaying the two bytes of UTF-8
encoded character as two 8-bit Latin-1 characters.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.4.0.7-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install (null) with Finnish as default language
2.boot to runlevel 5
3.
	

Actual Results:  The third gdm greeter button is "JC¤rjestelmC¤"

Expected Results:  The text should be "Jdrjestelmd"

Additional info:

Comment 1 Markku Kolkka 2002-08-20 09:18:32 UTC
Bugzilla seems to mangle any 8-bit characters in report.

Comment 2 Mattias Dahlberg 2002-08-20 13:39:23 UTC
Yes, this happens with Swedish as well. The word for "Language" is rendered 
wrongly. There's also a problem with the translation for "Root password" in the 
System-Settings. The UTF-8-characters seems to be displayed as ISO 8859-1. (But 
not all of them.)

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-20 14:34:52 UTC
Can you try with redhat-artwork 0.37 or 0.38 if you haven't?

Comment 4 Markku Kolkka 2002-08-20 16:21:18 UTC
redhat-artwork 0.38-1 from Rawhide fixes the problem (at least in Finnish)

Comment 5 Mattias Dahlberg 2002-08-21 08:52:12 UTC
redhat-artwork 0.38 fixed the gdm fonts for Swedish as well. But the UTF-8 
character in the translation for "Root Password" in System-Settings is still 
displayed wrongly, but perhaps I should open a new bug report for that?


Comment 6 Mattias Dahlberg 2002-08-21 10:55:51 UTC
The "Root Password bug" was already reported:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71825

All is fine. :)



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