Re: Devel list alive? UTF-8 & Merging patches with CVS

[Marcel Pol <mpol gmx net>]

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 01:57 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> As a side note, for users of Fedora Core there is a test src rpm
> featuring Vladimir's utf-8 improvements at
> http://www.ottolander.nl/opensource/srpms/fc1/mc-4.6.0-14.10n.src.rpm .
> The changelog in the spec file is incomplete. Essentially 6 hunks of the
> Fedora patches have been merged with Vladimir's patches and were dropped
> from the original patches.

When I try to integrate the utf8 patches for slang and mc in the
mandrake rpms, I end up with a broken mc. The same happens when I use
your fedora mc-src.rpm.
Mandrake's rpm is compile with --enable-nls and --enable-charset, while
your fedora rpm isn't, but that seems to make no difference.

What basically happens is that when I have a normal locale set (en_US),
all is well:
http://www.chaosmongers.org/linux/mc-no_utf8.jpg

Then when I set an utf8 locale I get a messed up screen, where the line-
drawing characters, etc are all blocks (in gnome-terminal) or
questionmarks (on console):
http://www.chaosmongers.org/linux/mc-utf8.jpg

When I only set LC_CTYPE back to en_US, all is well again.
http://www.chaosmongers.org/linux/mc-utf8-lc_ctype.jpg


When I use drakconf (Mandrake control centre) which uses newt (using
0.51.6) I get the same behaviour.


Just to be informational, I send along the contents of /etc/sysconfig/
i18n
SYSFONTACM=iso15
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en
LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=lat0-16


-- 
Marcel Pol