Bug 86266

Summary:	Probably an error in UTF8 gentoo guide
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Laurento Frittella (mrfree) <laurento.frittella>
Component:	Localisation Guide	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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"...