Subj : Re: Need volonteers to test another patch
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Vitaliy Aksyonov
Date : Fri Mar 22 2024 07:04 am
Hello Wilfred.
22 Mar 24 10:45, you wrote to me:
WvV>> I'm still seeing an issue with some messages in German areas.
WvV>> For
WvV>> instance:
WvV>>
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/0cc6a7ecd695
WvV>> Some characters are displayed as '~A', where they should be able
WvV>> to be displayed in their right form, while others are displayed
WvV>> correctly.
WvV>> The two High ascii characters in the marked area are:
WvV>> \x81 ; latin small letter u with diaeresis
WvV>> \xE1 ; greek small letter beta (here used as german ss)
WvV>> The last character in the line, an 'e', isn't even displayed,
WvV>> probably because of the expansion of 1 of the characters to 2
WvV>> characters.
WvV>> These characters are the same in CP437 and CP850. So my CP850
WvV>> terminal should display them correctly. It seems to come from
WvV>> Golded itself, or maybe the ncurses library, because it doesn't
WvV>> matter if I use luit for starting Golded or not, or running it
WvV>> in my remote putty terminal, or my local konsole terminal. The
WvV>> \x81 character is always displayed as ~A ... Strange!?
WvV> Btw: My terminal seems fine with displaying the CP850 high ascii
WvV> characters (despite the warning):
WvV>
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/8bcb9d2ecfdf
Looks like your luit doesn't support CP850 or you don't have en_US.CP850. There are some encodings which luit list, but doesn't support actually. For example, mine lists CP866, but doesn't work with it.
Does it present in `locale -a` output?
Have you tried to run that script without luit? You don't even need to change locale for it - just encoding in terminal.
Vitaliy
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