report display oddity
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Jan 28 22:33:53 CST 2003
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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