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Bug 211682 - www-client/links-2.1 - cannot input non-ascii characters on console
Summary: www-client/links-2.1 - cannot input non-ascii characters on console
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Marcelo Goes (RETIRED)
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-02-27 23:33 UTC by Mario
Modified: 2008-05-15 12:47 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Mario 2008-02-27 23:33:42 UTC
I use links-2.1_pre28-r1 in framebuffer console, i do not have X installed, links  compiled with Unicode and my locales LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8.

Links works ok in text mode allowed input and display non-ascii characters , but in graphic mode, "links -g", not allowed to enter from the keyboard characters non-ascii, however if the display web pages correctly.


Thanks.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-28 05:10:17 UTC
emerge --info output please.
Comment 2 Mario 2008-02-28 15:54:34 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> emerge --info output please.
> 

emerge --info
=============

Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r8-MDV i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r8-MDV i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.udc.es/gentoo/"
LANG="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="es_ES.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="es"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog midi mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY


equery u links
==============

equery -C u links
[ Searching for packages matching links... ]
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf              ]
[        : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
[ Found these USE variables for www-client/links-2.1_pre28-r1 ]
 U I
 - - X          : Adds support for X11
 - - directfb   : Adds support for DirectFB layer (library for FB devices)
 + + fbcon      : Adds framebuffer support for the console, via the kernel
 + + gpm        : Adds support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver)
 + + javascript : Enables javascript support
 + + jpeg       : Adds JPEG image support
 - - livecd     : !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during livecd building
 + + png        : Adds support for libpng (PNG images)
 - - sdl        : Adds support for Simple Direct Layer (media library)
 + + ssl        : Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections
 - - svga       : Adds support for SVGAlib (graphics library)
 - - tiff       : Adds support for the TIFF image format
 + + unicode    : Adds support for Unicode

locale
======

LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8


links 
=====
Setup:
Language -->  Spanish
Caracter Set --> ISO 8859-1
Terminal Options --> UTF8, Color, Linux OS/2 Frames

Works ok in text mode allowed input and display non-ascii characters

ñ ---> ñ


links -g
========
Setup
Language -->  Spanish
Miscellaneous options - Keyboard codepage --> ISO 8859-1

Display web pages correctly, but:

ñ ---> Ä+

Tanks.




Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-28 16:15:42 UTC
Thanks.
Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-28 16:16:47 UTC
Someone finally remove las0mbra@ig.com.br from metadata.xml please; proxy maintainer without bugzilla account is not useful at all.
Comment 5 Mario 2008-02-28 18:08:44 UTC
ok, thanks.
Comment 6 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-07 15:43:02 UTC
Does this go away with pre33?
Comment 7 Mario 2008-03-07 22:16:36 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> Does this go away with pre33?
> 

With pre33, this problem still occurs
Comment 8 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-22 16:18:24 UTC
I first feared that it was due to our unicode patches...but it isn't.  Without 
USE=unicode it still fails (please check).  Could you please report this error upstream and inform us here on the bug about the results?

There is a bug reporting section in http://links.twibright.com/development.php
Comment 9 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-15 12:47:26 UTC
Here is what Mikulas (upstream) had to say:

Hi

You must select keyboard type with Setup->Miscellaneous options->keyboard
codepage. But if you have UTF-8 keyboard, it won't work because UTF-8
keyboard is not supported.

I suppose we can't really fix this, I'm sorry :-(.