Description of problem: watch appears to remove non-ascii letters from output: [spider@Waves]~% locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC=sv_SE.utf8 LC_TIME=sv_SE.utf8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY=sv_SE.utf8 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT=sv_SE.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ date lör mar 16 13:46:45 CET 2013 $ watch date Every 2,0s: date Sat Mar 16 13:49:19 2013 lr mar 16 13:49:19 CET 2013 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): procps-ng-3.3.3-3.20120807git.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: set locale to something where a day has non-english letters in them. alternatively: [spider@Waves]~% echo Smörgåsgurka Smörgåsgurka [spider@Waves]~% watch 'echo Smörgåsgurka ' Every 2,0s: echo SmM-CM-6rgM-CM-%sgurka Sat Mar 16 13:50:41 2013 Smrgsgurka Actual results: Disappearing letters, both in files, paths and dates. Expected results: Unicode output. We're in a post ascii world, after all. Additional info:
Hello Spider. Could you please download the latest RPM from the following link and test if that solves your issue? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5550165 Thanks in advance. Regards, Jaromir.
Tested, and this now works. Resolved for me.
procps-ng-3.3.3-6.20120807git.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/procps-ng-3.3.3-6.20120807git.fc18
Package procps-ng-3.3.3-6.20120807git.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing procps-ng-3.3.3-6.20120807git.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11959/procps-ng-3.3.3-6.20120807git.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
procps-ng-3.3.3-6.20120807git.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.