176363 – incorrect codepage of russianized messages when unicode is used

Bug 176363 - incorrect codepage of russianized messages when unicode is used

Summary: incorrect codepage of russianized messages when unicode is used

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121502

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2007-04-28 14:56 UTC by Michael Telnov
Modified:	2007-04-28 15:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Michael Telnov 2007-04-28 14:56:01 UTC

Russianized messages encoded with KOI8-R, regardless of the fact that unicode is used.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set environment variable LANG to ru_RU.UTF-8
2.$ man

Actual Results:  
$ man
????? ???????? ??????????? ?????????? ????????

Expected Results:  
$ man
Какую страницу руководства необходимо открыть?

My workaround:
devti@exp3 ~ $ diff /usr/portage/sys-apps/man/man-1.6e-r3.ebuild /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/man/man-1.6e-r3.ebuild
14c14
< IUSE="nls"
---
> IUSE="nls unicode"
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>       if use unicode ; then
>               iconv -f koi8 ./msgs/mess.ru > ./msgs/tmp && mv ./msgs/tmp ./msgs/mess.ru
>               echo '$ codeset=utf8' > ./msgs/mess.ru.codeset
>       fi
>

Comment 1 Jakub Moc 2007-04-28 14:58:08 UTC

Dupe of Bug 121502

Comment 2 Jakub Moc 2007-04-28 15:01:01 UTC

Eh, actually Bug 93664 more like... It will still suck even when converted b/c of the Bug 121502, so...

Comment 3 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-04-28 15:12:30 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 121502 ***