Re: Trouble with umlauts in ISO locale

Hi,

* Frank Terbeck ([email protected]) wrote [080107 13:28]:

> I'm building the current SVN version of slrn with the following
> options:

> [snip]
> ./configure --enable-strict-from --enable-mid-cache --enable-spool  \
>             --enable-charmap     --with-ssl         --enable-decode
> [snap]

> Which results in:

> [snip]
> % /usr/local/bin/slrn --version
> slrn pre0.9.9-77
>         * Note: This version is a developer preview.
> S-Lang Library Version: 2.1.3
> Compiled at: Jan  7 2008 13:12:59
> Operating System: Linux

> With this setup, every umlaut is displayed as '?'.
> If I'm starting slrn like this: 'LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 slrn' and use
> an utf8-aware terminal like urxvt, the characters are displayed
> correctly.

confirmed here, it is a bug. Normally slrn should detect the locale
via the nl_langinfo() function.  

#v+
#if defined(HAVE_LOCALE_H) && defined(HAVE_LANGINFO_H)
  if (Slrn_Display_Charset == NULL)
    {
       setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
       Slrn_Display_Charset = slrn_safe_strmalloc (nl_langinfo (CODESET));
    }
#endif
#v-

But with slrn 0.9.9 I can't find the HAVE_LANGINFO_H anywhere in the
config.h, it seems it got lost somehow in the configure script.

You could try to add 

#define HAVE_LANGINFO_H 1

to your config.h file after the configure run. 

Or you could try to force slrn to use iso-8859-15 by adding

charset Display  iso-8859-15

Cheers,

 Thomas

-- 
slrn packages for ubuntu: http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/

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