Bug 60083 – slrn-0.9.8.0-r1.ebuild does not support UTF-8 correct

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Torgen Foertsch 2004-08-11 13:03:57 UTC]

using slrn in a gentoo UTF-8 environment shows some display-errors while using german-umlauts. No german Umlauts are displayed! If some ascii-character are followed by the umlaut without a space, the rest of this word isn't displayed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge slang-1.4.9-r1 for slang with UTF-8 support
2. emerge slrn
3. export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
4. run slrn with a newsgroup with german umlauts




dido tfoerts $ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

dido tfoerts $ ldd `which slrn`
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libslang-utf8.so.1 => /usr/lib/libslang-utf8.so.1 (0x4002c000)
        libssl.so.0.9.7 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 (0x400a0000)
        libcrypto.so.0.9.7 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 (0x400d0000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x401c9000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401eb000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401ee000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Other slang-based apps are working propperly.

SUSE uses a simple patch for this Problem:

--- src/misc.c
+++ src/misc.c
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@
    
    while (s1 < smax)
      {
-       if ((*s1 & 0x80) && (eight_bit > (unsigned int) *s1))
+       if ((*s1 & 0x80) && ((eight_bit > (unsigned int) *s1) ||
(SLsmg_Is_Unicode)))
          {
             if (s != (char *) s1)
               SLsmg_write_nchars (s, (unsigned int) ((char *)s1 - s));

[Comment 1 Sven Wegener 2004-08-13 06:13:15 UTC]

Fixed with slrn-0.9.8.0-r2.