Bug 364365

Summary:	games-misc/cowsay-3.03-r2 has problem with utf8 quotes
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Laurento Frittella (mrfree) <laurento.frittella>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	files/cowsay-3.03-utf8-fix.patch

Description Laurento Frittella (mrfree) 2011-04-21 14:42:41 UTC

Created attachment 270785 [details]
files/cowsay-3.03-utf8-fix.patch

cowsay-3.03 doesn't work as expected with utf8 encoded quotes

here is the debian bugreport from where I've got the attached patch
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=31;bug=254557

Comment 1 Laurento Frittella (mrfree) 2011-04-21 14:43:53 UTC

... and the trivial ebuild patch

--- /usr/portage/games-misc/cowsay/cowsay-3.03-r2.ebuild	2010-08-24 01:18:51.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/local/portage/games-misc/cowsay/cowsay-3.03-r2.ebuild	2011-04-21 16:37:39.422967176 +0200
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
 			|| die "sed cowsay.1 failed"
 	epatch \
 		"${FILESDIR}/${P}"-tongue.patch \
-		"${FILESDIR}/${P}"-mech.patch
+		"${FILESDIR}/${P}"-mech.patch \
+		"${FILESDIR}/${P}"-utf8-fix.patch
 }
 
 src_install() {

Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-21 20:13:15 UTC

in portage.