Re: UTF-8 display problems

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 02:24:57AM +0200, Johannes Weißl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 2004-05-17 19:34:41, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 	I'm not sure what parts of the option-menu would have non-ASCII
> > 	characters.
> 
> The option-menu is translated into German (because of enabled NLS).
> Non-ASCII characters are first correctly displayed, but when I
> scroll down, they disappear:
> 
>     31. Blättere Artikel um ... Zeilen     : 1
>     31. Bltere Artikel um ... Zeilen     : 1
> 
> > The first thing to do is to determine how to reproduce the behaviour.
> 
> It can always be reproduced, if tin tries to convert to UTF-8.
> If LANG=C, every non-ASCII character is replaced by '?', but no
> lines disappear etc.

if do no set LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL then LANGs val is used for LC_CTYPE.
"C" does not know any 8-bit chars thus they are converted to "?".

> If LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1, everything works fine.

I wouldn't use LANG but LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES (cause it allows
finer control) but that shouldn't matter. LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1
(btw. the codeset portion isn't needed here, ISO-8859-1 is the default
for de_DE) should set LC_CTYPE to de_DE[.ISO-8859-1] and thus
ISO-8859-1 chars are known as displayable.

anyway, I can't reproduce your problem:

~ > xterm -v
XFree86 4.2.0(165)
~ > locale
LANG=de_DE.utf8
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8
[...]
linked against ncursesw5.4, debian linux-2.4.26

urs
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