On May 25, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Robert Scheck wrote:
Hello all,
I've claimed that I can see some umlaut issues with popt 1.14 and I
really
would like to see it solved, now. Reproducer is for me as follows.
Using
popt-1.13-3 from Fedora 8, 9 or Rawhide, I simply executed the
following:
$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm --help > rpm-1.13-iso
$ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 rpm --help > rpm-1.13-utf
Using popt 1.15 from latest CVS checkout, I also did the following:
$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm --help > rpm-1.15-iso
$ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 rpm --help > rpm-1.15-utf
Results are now as follows using file(1) to compare:
popt-1.13-iso: ISO-8859 text # as expected
popt-1.13-utf: UTF-8 Unicode text # as expected
popt-1.15-iso: Non-ISO extended-ASCII text # NOT as expected
popt-1.15-utf: UTF-8 Unicode text # as expected
Hmmm, file(1) can be tricked and is perhaps unreliable as a test.
I've written this toy reproducer script:
#!/bin/bash
sudo make -C /X/popt/popt-1.13 install >& /dev/null && echo "==>
1.13-3.fc9 installed"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm --help > /tmp/popt-1.13-iso
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 rpm --help > /tmp/popt-1.13-utf
diff -u /tmp/popt-1.13-{iso,utf}
sudo make -C /X/src/popt install >& /dev/null && echo "==> 1.15
installed"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm --help > /tmp/popt-1.15-iso
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 rpm --help > /tmp/popt-1.15-utf
diff -u /tmp/popt-1.15-{iso,utf}
With popt-1.13-3.fc9 installed (with the popt-1.13-popt_fprintf patch
applied), I see
differences rendering umlaut's between the output from the 2 locales
for both 1.13 and 1.15.
(aside) the description column _IS_ aligned, which is/was the rather
feeble reproducer
for this issue during popt-1.14 release.
And here is what file(1) has to say on the matter:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] popt]$ file /tmp/popt-1.13-iso
/tmp/popt-1.13-iso: ISO-8859 English text
[EMAIL PROTECTED] popt]$ file /tmp/popt-1.15-iso
/tmp/popt-1.15-iso: Non-ISO extended-ASCII English text
reproducing your results here.
I have most certainly removed the encoding conversion in popt-1.14 so
that the --help
columns are aligned. Which likely explains the file(1) output, iconv
is _NOT_ being
performed, because doing the iconv conversion visibly destroyed the --
help column alignment.
So a little more help please. What problem should I focus on? Having
only American
English kinda hampers my abilities to fix this issue, I really don't
know what to expect
with de_DE locale encoded display output (although I'm way more
familiar with
rpm --help than kudzu or random GNOME --help). I can most easily
detect column alignment
issues, duh.
And sure I want to fix _ALL_ the popt problems. Just which one first?
Once my LANG is [EMAIL PROTECTED] for popt >= 1.14, the ISO-8859 text
seems not
sane to be written somehow. Please note, that popt 1.13, I was
using here
is not the vanilla one, the following patch was applied (no matter
what it
does exactly):
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/devel/popt/
popt-1.13-popt_fprintf.patch
Greetings,
Robert<popt-1.13-iso.gz><popt-1.13-utf.gz><popt-1.15-
iso.gz><popt-1.15-utf.gz>
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