Bug 93656

Summary:	here's a newer version of less that hasn't been officially release on less's homepage
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Eugene Pavlovsky <heilong>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	searching in ru_RU.UTF-8 locale works ok in this less version

Description Eugene Pavlovsky 2005-05-23 02:37:58 UTC

Quite a while ago, I've had problems with using ru_RU.UTF-8 locale with less
(the problem was with using cyrillic letters while searching), and I had an
e-mail conversation with less's author, and he did send me a fixed and updated
version (less-385), which he said he would later release. I used it happily ever
since. Recently I've switched from slackware to gentoo, and found that gentoo
provides less-382, which exhibits the same problem (if you view some file with
less and press the '/' character while in ru_RU.UTF-8 locale, then switch your
keymap(group in X) to russian and type something, weird characters would
appear). I've got this less-385 tarball from back then, and less from this
tarball work. It'd be great to have this in portage (or separate these changes
in a utf-8 fixing patch).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Eugene Pavlovsky 2005-05-23 02:39:31 UTC

Created attachment 59613 [details]
searching in ru_RU.UTF-8 locale works ok in this less version

this is the original version which the less's author has sent me that fixes the
bug i've described above

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-05-23 15:31:37 UTC

the 385 tarball is on the less homepage, it just doesnt have a link on the frontpage

ive added 385 to portage, thanks for the info ! :)