app-text/ding 1.4 displays german umlauts incorrectly, i.e. the UTF characters don't work correctly (see screenshot in URL). My locale is as follows: LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro LC_NUMERIC=en_US LC_TIME=en_US LC_COLLATE=de_DE@euro LC_MONETARY=de_DE@euro LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER=de_DE@euro LC_NAME=de_DE@euro LC_ADDRESS=de_DE@euro LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE@euro LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE@euro LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE@euro LC_ALL= Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. invoke "ding" 2. search for some word where german words with umlauts appear Actual Results: Results are displayed, but with damaged umlaut (diaeresis) characters. Expected Results: Display german umlauts correctly Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.4.28 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.28 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control /var/service /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/" LANG="en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dvd eds emboss encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad matrox mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg nas ncurses nls oci8 ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline real ruby samba scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Uhm, you locate is incorrect for UTF-8. It should be de_DE-UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
locale de_DE.UTF-8 does no longer exist, it's now renamed to de_DE.utf8, and I suppose there are still some applications that need the old form. But I don't want UTF. I normally want ISO8859 encoding since I have many files that are encoded with ISO8859 and I don't want to mix this. Isn't an application like ding supposed to *respect* my locale and display things in ISO8859?
Is there a fix in sight? I'm having the same problem.
output of `locale -a`? does iconv work ie can it convert from utf8? 2 hacks: LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 ding (maybe alias ding="LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 ding") or cd /usr/share/dict cp de-en.txt de-en.txt.UTF8 iconv -futf8 -tiso8859-1 de-en.txt > de-en.txt.iso8859-1 cp de-en.txt.iso8859-1 de-en.txt
(In reply to comment #4) > output of `locale -a`? To make it short only the important lines: # locale -a | grep de_DE de_DE de_DE@euro de_DE.utf8 # locale -a | grep en_US en_US en_US.utf8 So everything important is there. > does iconv work ie can it convert from utf8? iconv works. > LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 ding (maybe alias ding="LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 ding") This hack doesn't work. > cd /usr/share/dict > cp de-en.txt de-en.txt.UTF8 > iconv -futf8 -tiso8859-1 de-en.txt > de-en.txt.iso8859-1 > cp de-en.txt.iso8859-1 de-en.txt This hack works. Thanks!
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 ding (maybe alias ding="LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 ding") > > This hack doesn't work. It should work. Did you set LC_ALL in your environment? `locale` shows it - please post it. > > cd /usr/share/dict > > cp de-en.txt de-en.txt.UTF8 > > iconv -futf8 -tiso8859-1 de-en.txt > de-en.txt.iso8859-1 > > cp de-en.txt.iso8859-1 de-en.txt > > This hack works. Thanks! I've seen that the 'cp's are not needed. One can set the dictionary in ding's settings (so it could be set to de-en.txt.iso8859-1).
(In reply to comment #6) > It should work. > Did you set LC_ALL in your environment? > `locale` shows it - please post it. This is how I had set the variables first: LANG=de_DE@euro LC_ALL=de_DE@euro Then for testing purposes and to finally get English compiler outputs in my German environment I changed these settings to this: LANG=de_DE@euro LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro LC_NUMERIC=de_DE@euro LC_TIME=de_DE@euro LC_COLLATE=de_DE@euro LC_MONETARY=de_DE@euro LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER=de_DE@euro LC_NAME=de_DE@euro LC_ADDRESS=de_DE@euro LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE@euro LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE@euro LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE@euro LC_ALL= Both with the same result regarding ding and your first hack. But on the ding website http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/ I found this in the changelog: Changes in version 1.4: ... - Using UTF-8 encoding now, renamed ger-eng.txt to de-en.txt ... The ding developers seem to have switched completely to unicode so that this bug isn't really a bug but a feature. Maybe this is why your first hack with the LC_* veriables doesn't work. But your second hack works as a workaround until Gentoo can be switched completely to unicode. > I've seen that the 'cp's are not needed. One can set the dictionary in ding's > settings (so it could be set to de-en.txt.iso8859-1). I didn't know these settings in ding, too. The cp's are not necessary but have also their small advantage. So you can have an iso8859-1 and a utf8 version of this file and can set a link to the version you need mainly.
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 ding works for me.
