Bug 492380 – x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.19 - problem with UTF-8 glyphs

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description tman 2013-11-23 20:48:23 UTC]

after upgrading to version 9.19 i have massive problem to start ncurses programms like mc and genkernel. i only see cryptic symbols

i tested if the environment is the problem, but in xterm all works.




Reproducible: Always




Portage 2.2.7 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.17, 3.12.1-gentoo x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-3.12.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3740QM_CPU_@_2.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    24695824 total,  22744572 free
KiB Swap:   25598972 total,  25598972 free
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:00:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/python:          2.7.5-r4, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.12.1-r1
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.14
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.2
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.11 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.17
Repositories: gentoo lokal
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=corei7 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=corei7 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/mnt/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=""
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/mnt/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-24 14:39:55 UTC]

1) Please post your `emerge -vpq x11-terms/rxvt-unicode' output in a comment.
2) Please post your `locale` output in a comment.
3) Please detail more information about the font(s) you use and related
   rxvt-unicode settings.
4) Please attach a screenshot.

[Comment 2 tman 2013-11-24 17:50:51 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1)
> 1) Please post your `emerge -vpq x11-terms/rxvt-unicode' output in a comment.

# emerge -vpq x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
[ebuild   R   ] x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.19  USE="focused-urgency font-styles mousewheel perl startup-notification vanilla xft -256-color -alt-font-width -blink -buffer-on-clear -fading-colors -iso14755 -pixbuf -secondary-wheel -unicode3 -wcwidth" 

 * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.



> 2) Please post your `locale` output in a comment.

# locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=


> 3) Please detail more information about the font(s) you use and related
>    rxvt-unicode settings.


#i am using terminus-fonts
#~/.Xdefaults

URxvt.font:             xft:terminus:pixelsize=12:antialias=false
URxvt.boldFont:         xft:terminus:bold:pixelsize=12:antialias=false 
URxvt.italicFont: 	xft:terminus:italic:pixelsize=12:antialias=false
URxvt.boldItalicFont:	xft:terminus:bolditalic:pixelsize=12:antialias=false



> 4) Please attach a screenshot.
in attachments

[Comment 3 tman 2013-11-24 17:51:54 UTC]

Created attachment 363906 [details]
screenshot

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-24 17:59:49 UTC]

Comment on attachment 363906 [details]
screenshot

That looks fine to me. Did you attach the correct image?

[Comment 5 tman 2013-11-24 19:24:08 UTC]

yes this is the right image.


 i have massive proble to use mc and any other ncurse application in urxvtc, cut the cryptic symbols. in the tty it works fine and in xterm there is no problem.

[Comment 6 Franz Trischberger 2013-11-26 19:17:01 UTC]

I had issues with some characters (nothing special, "E", "R" and others) turning into unreadable symbols. Changing the font helped for a while, then the issue reappreaded.
The solution was to delete all cache files in ~/.fontconfig. Be aware to not delete config files ;)

[Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-28 13:13:17 UTC]

*** Bug 492766 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2017-01-04 09:00:41 UTC]

*** Bug 604584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***