Bug 184384 – net-irc/irssi - recode with recode_autodetect_utf8, and a non-ascii recode_fallback, does not decode 7-bit ascii properly

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description bdonlan 2007-07-06 04:47:31 UTC]

With recode settings set as follows:
23:40 [misc]
23:40 recode_autodetect_utf8 = ON
23:40 recode_fallback = sjis
23:40 recode = ON
23:40 recode_out_default_charset =
23:40 recode_transliterate = ON
23:40 [lookandfeel]
23:40 term_charset = UTF-8

If one enters text which is 7-bit, it is decoded as shift-jis. Since shift-jis is not a proper superset of US-ASCII, things are changed - for example, \ becomes ¥ and ~ becomes ‾.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set irssi options as mentioned above
2. /msg (your username) \~

Actual Results:  
¥‾ is displayed

Expected Results:  
\~ should have been displayed

I'm currently working on a patch for this; I'll post back with my results

[Comment 1 bdonlan 2007-07-06 05:06:27 UTC]

I've made a patch to correct this issue at http://www.fushizen.net/irssi-0.8.11-dont-fallback-on-7bit.patch

[Comment 2 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-07-06 17:44:47 UTC]

And why not send this upstream?

[Comment 3 bdonlan 2007-07-07 00:44:21 UTC]

Now sent upstream at http://bugs.irssi.org/?do=details&task_id=518

[Comment 4 Daniel Santos 2008-10-02 20:45:26 UTC]

Related or duplicate of bug 168341?  Just curious

[Comment 5 Ihar Hrachyshka 2009-09-01 12:24:48 UTC]

Seems it should be already fixed for >=0.8.13 (as info from upstream bugzilla states). If mips will stabilize 0.8.13 then the bug can be closed I think.

[Comment 6 Ihar Hrachyshka 2009-09-01 12:27:11 UTC]

Though as it's stated in the following comment for the bug #271875: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271875#c12
MIPS team dropped stable branch support so you can just close the bug.

[Comment 7 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-10-21 14:44:07 UTC]

resolving per comment #6