I think it is safe to assume that most computers, that have detox installed, use UTF-8 as default. Without /etc/detoxrc detox will use the iso8859_1 sequence and the user has no other choice, since no other sequences are defined. So the user has to manually copy /usr/share/doc/detox-1.4.2/detoxrc.sample.bz2 to their home, unpack it and rename it to .detoxrc before they can actually use detox. For that reason I think the detox ebuild should provide a useful /etc/detoxrc. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. touch "Übung.txt" 2. detox . 3. ls lists Aoebung.txt instead of UEbung.txt 42,43d41 < insinto /etc < newins etc/${PN}rc.sample ${PN}rc
Maybe it could print a message after installation telling users they should probably copy the config from /usr/share/doc/detox-1.4.2/detoxrc.sample.bz2.
I ran some tests for different languages with and without .UTF-8 in $LANG. For each combination detox did what I expected when the sample detoxrc was in /etc/. Following the principle of least surprise I think /etc/detoxrc should exist. Other packages do also provide a system wide default config, is there a reason this package should not?
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4ee346b3979f6e562f3e6b2bf94858867f81c144 commit 4ee346b3979f6e562f3e6b2bf94858867f81c144 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-10-14 09:38:47 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-10-14 09:40:42 +0000 app-misc/detox: install detoxrc Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/811945 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> app-misc/detox/{detox-1.4.2.ebuild => detox-1.4.2-r1.ebuild} | 4 +++- app-misc/detox/{detox-1.4.5.ebuild => detox-1.4.5-r1.ebuild} | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
