Bug 82288 - non-ascii broken in some gdm texts
Summary: non-ascii broken in some gdm texts
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 82168
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gdm
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks: 79578
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-20 22:17 UTC by Daniel Resare
Modified: 2008-01-17 17:49 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:51:16 UTC
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Description Daniel Resare 2003-01-20 22:17:55 UTC 
Description of problem:

When I set the system language to swedish (sv_SE.UTF-8) some translated messages
on the login screen have broken non-ascii characters. More specifically the
UTF-8 string from the translations file is treated as an ISO-8859-1 string and
what should have been an å is now displayed as two bogus characters.

This does not apply to all texts in the gdm screen. The translation to 'Please
enter your username' gets translated correctly. 'Welcome to $HOST' and
'Language' are broken.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.4.1.0-1 (phoebe 8.0.93)

How reproducible:
seems to be always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set system language to Swedish
2. Log out

    
Actual results:
borken ä ö and å in some texts on the gdm login screen

Expected results:
properly recognized non-ascii

Additional info:
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-20 23:10:21 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82168 ***
Comment 2 Daniel Resare 2003-01-21 00:02:57 UTC 
Please make #8168 a duplicate of this bug instead, or move that bug from Red Hat
Linux beta to Red Hat Public Beta.

I get this message from bugzilla:

"You are not permitted to edit bugs in product Red Hat Linux Beta."

when I try to edit that one.
Comment 3 Daniel Resare 2003-01-21 00:03:20 UTC 
fyi redhat-artwork 0.60 doesn't solve the problem for me
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:51:16 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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