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Bug 909237

Summary: Improper handling of non-english locales
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Martin Kyral <mkyral>
Component: kdebaseAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 5.9CC: kdudka, mkyral
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Description Martin Kyral 2013-02-08 13:49:15 UTC
Created attachment 695106 [details]
LANG=de_DE.utf-8 elinks

Description of problem:
When testing elinks under non-english, utf8 locale, all non-ASCII characters are missing and replaced by the � characters.
Under non-english, non-utf8 locale, there are these � characters placed incorrectly in the TUI elements, causing visual artifacts, which persist even after the affected menu is closed.
The behavior with de_DE.utf-8 and de_DE locale


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
elinks-0.11.1-8.el5_9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. LANG=de_DE.utf-8 elinks
2. LANG=de_DE elinks
  
Actual results:
1. Some characters in the TUI elements (menus etc.) are replaced by �
2. In some TUI elemnts, the � characters are placed incorrectly

Expected results:
All the characters and TUI elements are being displayed correctly and there are no visual artifacts or glitches.

Additional info:
See attached screenshots

Comment 1 Martin Kyral 2013-02-08 13:50:01 UTC
Created attachment 695107 [details]
LANG=de_DE elinks

Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2013-02-11 17:04:29 UTC
I am able to reproduce it with RHEL-5 konsole, but not with RHEL-5 xterm or gnome-terminal.  It also works fine with RHEL-6 konsole.  As a workaround, you can use the "Keine Rahmen" option in Einstellungen -> Terminaleinstellungen:

echo set terminal.xterm.type = 0 >> ~/.elinks/elinks.conf

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2014-03-07 12:42:13 UTC
This bug/component is not included in scope for RHEL-5.11.0 which is the last RHEL5 minor release. This Bugzilla will soon be CLOSED as WONTFIX (at the end of RHEL5.11 development phase (Apr 22, 2014)). Please contact your account manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2014-06-02 13:05:33 UTC
Thank you for submitting this request for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. We've carefully evaluated the request, but are unable to include it in RHEL5 stream. If the issue is critical for your business, please provide additional business justification through the appropriate support channels (https://access.redhat.com/site/support).