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regarding xwpe: Info viewer displays UTF-8 characters as garbled characters
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Package: xwpe
Version: 1.5.30a-4.2
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream
The Info viewer (Help -> Info) does not handle UTF-8 encoded text.
Modern info pages contain UTF-8 characters for translations
(Cyrillic, Chinese, accented Latin characters for Spanish, French,
Portuguese, Romanian, etc.). xwpe displays these as garbled
sequences because it reads files byte-by-byte and cannot decode
multi-byte UTF-8.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Run xwpe (or wpe)
2. Open Help -> Info
3. Scroll down to the translated sections (e.g. help2man-sr,
help2man-uk, help2man-zh_CN, help2man-es, help2man-fr,
help2man-pt_BR, help2man-ro)
Expected: Correctly rendered UTF-8 text, e.g.:
- Spanish: "Generacion automatica de la pagina del manual."
- French: "Creation automatique de page de manuel."
- Romanian: "Generare automata a paginii de manual."
- Cyrillic: Readable Russian/Ukrainian/Serbian text
- Chinese: Readable Chinese characters
Examples of garbled text:
- @C@3 instead of o-acute (Spanish "Generaci@C@3n")
Root cause seems to be that xwpe is a legacy C89 application that predates
UTF-8 spread usage. Text rendering functions need to be revisited.
-- System Information:
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 7.0.9-1-amd64
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: xwpe
Source-Version: 1.6.2-1
Done: Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xwpe, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <[email protected]> (supplier of updated xwpe
package)
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Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 21:11:35 +0200
Source: xwpe
Architecture: source
Version: 1.6.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Commons <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <[email protected]>
Closes: 228820 1098180 1137613 1137649 1137650
Changes:
xwpe (1.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Juan Manuel Méndez Rey ]
* New upstream release (1.6.0 + 1.6.1 + 1.6.2, first upload since rescue).
- New upstream maintainer: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey, with Dennis Payne's
blessing. Upstream moved to https://codeberg.org/mendezr/xwpe
- Xft font rendering in X11 mode: anti-aliased TrueType fonts, color
emoji via Noto Color Emoji, fontconfig fallback. (Closes: #1098180)
- Pixmap double-buffering in X11: zero flicker on resize.
- Full UTF-8 display in terminal and X11 mode via SCREENCELL buffer
model with CELL_WIDE support for emoji and CJK. (Closes: #1137613)
- Terminal resize support via KEY_RESIZE. (Closes: #1137649)
- Keyboard mapping fix for modern PC keyboards. (Closes: #1137650)
- Compiler integration: gcc, g++, gfortran, fpc, javac, python3,
pdflatex with error navigation. (Closes: #228820)
- Debugger resurrection: gdb, jdb (Java), pdb (Python) with
integrated output to Messages buffer.
- ncurses mouse for terminal emulators; GPM migrated to
ncurses-managed integration.
- Fixed 33-year-old Redo crash (SIGSEGV after search/replace undo).
- Modern autotools build (configure.ac + Makefile.am); dh_autoreconf
now works.
- All former Debian patches integrated upstream; drop all patches.
- 12-chapter Texinfo manual; 33 automated tests.
* Add Build-Depends: pkgconf, libxft-dev,
libfontconfig-dev.
* Update Build-Depends: libncursesw5-dev to libncurses-dev.
* Simplify debian/rules: drop all overrides.
* Update Homepage, Vcs-*, debian/watch for Codeberg upstream.
* Add Suggests: gpm [linux-any], python3, texlive-latex-base.
* Remove deprecated debian/menu (xwpe.desktop replaces it).
* Update debian/copyright for new upstream.
.
[ Andreas Tille ]
* Remove debian/README.Debian since the package is obviously maintained
again
.
[ Juan Manuel Mendez Rey ]
* Move to team maintenance: Maintainer is Debian Commons, Uploaders:
Lovergine, Mendez Rey.
* Vcs-* point to debian/xwpe on Salsa (team namespace).
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