report display oddity

[Derek Atkins]

Reinke Bonte <reinke.bonte at web.de> writes:

> My comments may not be very qualified, but anyway:
> 
> On 28 Jan 2003 09:40:04 -0500
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > Interesting...  If I set my LANG to en_GB.UTF8, I can reproduce this
> > error.  I also get the following:
> 
> That reports do not show multibyte characters correctly has been
> reported frequently on this list. You have always said that it is a
> problem with gtkhtml. 

This is (slightly) different..  What I saw was more than just reports
being incorrect.  Even non-reports were showing the incorrect
multi-byte currency character in my example.

> > Feel free to submit a bug report under UI-general (because this
> > affects the currency symbol everywhere, not just in reports).
> 
> I think this is only a "reports" bug. I had always thought it has been
> filed under #84604, but I just saw that #84604 is guppi related, and
> ours not. If you want I will file a new bug report, I never could
> display multi byte characters in reports. 

Negative.  It's more than just a report problem.  The way I can tell is
that I've got a test account denoted in GBP, and when I run with
LANG=en_GB.UTF8 I see the bogus "pound" character not only in reports
but also in the main-window status bar!  So, that's why I think it's
more than just a report issue.

So, yes, please file a new bug report on this.

> > In the short term you can probably just sent the LANG in your .profile
> > or .cshrc file.  In the longer term we should figure out why the UTF8
> > lang causes this problem (note that it could be a bug in the locale
> > specification -- or it could be a bug in handling the UTF8).
> 
> It is related to all encodings which use more than one byte to encode
> one character.

I certainly believe that.  I agree it is NOT limited to en_GB! ;)

> Reinke

-derek

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