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Bug 86266 - Probably an error in UTF8 gentoo guide
Summary: Probably an error in UTF8 gentoo guide
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Localisation Guide (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
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Reported: 2005-03-22 08:31 UTC by Laurento Frittella (mrfree)
Modified: 2005-04-07 11:12 UTC (History)
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Description Laurento Frittella (mrfree) 2005-03-22 08:31:30 UTC 
Gentoo UTF8 guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml in section "Setting the Locale" reports:

export LANG="en_GB.utf8"
export LC_ALL="en_GB.utf8"

Using this when I run ncurses configuration on my kernel (make menuconfig) many of char are wrong and all looks very very ugly.
I've notice that using:

LANG="it_IT.UTF-8"         instead of         LANG="it_IT.utf8"
LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8"                          LC_ALL="it_IT.utf8"

solve the problem

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-25 07:03:15 UTC 
I don't seem to be suffering this behaviour (although I only checked with the locale I use, en_US). Do you only have this with the italian one?
Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-04-07 10:32:17 UTC 
No further feedback, cannot reproduce...
Comment 3 Flammie Pirinen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-04-07 11:12:34 UTC 
I might be mistaken,  but if menuconfig doesn't use internal ncurses and uses system's ncurses, wouldn't it probably be yet another unicode bug with ncurses? If that is the case it should reproduce by installing ncurses USE="-unicode"...