Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 72494
spanish accent marks and q (n with tilde) shown incorrectly.
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:03 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722 Description of problem: My installation of (null) was done with Spanish as the default language. When I created a user account during installation, the accent mark in the user last name was shown correctly on screen. Once the system booted, and I run redhat-config-users to add another user, I see that the accent mark in the first user's name is shown incorrectly. It ought to be an "i" with an acute accent mark (like í in HTML) but instead see the attached screenshot to see what it is displayed as. The attached screenshot shows a shell window with the "finger" information for the same user, correctly showing his name with the accent mark). However, if I login remotely into the machine, and from that shell I finger the same user (sorrodp), the accent mark is shown incorrectly, like in the redhat-config-users application window. Accent marks and spanish "q" (n with a tilde) are shown incorrectly in several locations throughout the whole Red Hat Linux (null) installation. The gdm display also shows some of these characters incorrectly, in a similar fashion to the error seen in the attached screenshot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
Created attachment 72764 [details] Screenshot showing the error displaying spanish accent marks.
I don't know if this has been fixed since you tried Null or not, but this doesn't seem to happen for me. I have not specifically done anything to affect the behavior, but perhaps something has changed in GTK that would have caused the problem to go away? I'm attaching a screenshot showing the current behavior. Look at user "test12". The full name should have the Spanish accent marks on the "e" in Josi and the "i" in Rodrmguez. QA, please verify that the program handles accent chars correctly.
Created attachment 73426 [details] screenshot
Ah, Mozilla screwed up the chars in my previous post. Anyway, QA, please test with redhat-config-users-1.1-16.
I upgraded the package redhat-config-users to version 1.1-16. The bug is still there. That is, redhat-config-users still shows accent marks incorrectly. I have a general idea about what may be wrong: In your screenshot (redhat-config-users.py.png) I can see that you are using an English environment.... that is, everything is in English. The bug appears on a Spanish installation of (null). I did a Spanish install, choosing Spanish also as the default language and the language for the root session (see my first screenshot). As I said earlier, when I typed the accent mark *during* the installation of the distribution, at the point of choosing a root password and adding some users, the accent mark was displayed correctly, but it is displayed incorrectly in any graphical app once you are using the system. Also, the GDM (again, in the Spanish installation), shows accented characters incorrectly. (For instance the word "Session" is "Sesisn" in Spanish, with an accent on the "o", and some weird char is shown instead of the "o" in GDM. So, my take is that more than one Spanish character sets are being used in different parts of the system such that there are different encodings for the same character (let4s say an accented "o"). So when I type the "o" in one application (the installer), it gets encoded with one character set. Then another app (for instance, redhat-config-users) reads the information but if it is using a different character set, it will display some other char for that same encoding. I believe that may be the reason why in my screenshot (accent_problem.jpg) you see that the output of the "finger" command is corrent... the gnome terminal may be using the same encoding that the installation application did, hence showing the information correctly. However, if I ssh into this machine from machine "test", and in that shell I type "finger sorrodp", then the wrong character is displayed... and it must be because the encoding is wrong to begin with, since the machine "test" displays all other spanish special characters correctly. I guess this problem only shows up if you do an install in Spanish, since you did not see the problem in your (apparently) English install of (null). That4s what I think the problem may be. If you do a Spanish install you will see that many (not all) menus in the gnome desktop display accents as weird characters. But other menus show the right character for the same letter (for instance the accented "o"). That also makes me think that the gnome-desktop uses one character set to display stuff on screen, but different menu entries where encoded with different spanish character sets, and that4s why some are displayed fine, and others are displayed incorrectly.
There is a stack of 64 bugs that have been in Modified state for a long period of time. I am closing these as Rawhide now. If you find that the issue is not fixed, please reopen this report.