On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:46:40 +0100 Oskar Liljeblad <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday, February 08, 2009 at 18:54, Francois Marier wrote: > > A Debian user, Roman, reported that UTF-8 characters are not > > printed by atool when unpacking files: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514454 > > > > He provided a patch, but I suspect it could lead to certain > > undesirable non-printable characters being printed to the terminal. > > I don't know - atool uses 'use locale' and then checks that each > character is printable in the current locale using POSIX::isprint. > The problem may be related to UTF-8 and that perhaps perl is not in > UTF-8 mode by default, or that atool isn't iterating over characters > correctly. I have no problems with characters like åäöÅÄÖ in my > ISO-8859-1 (en_GB.ISO-8859-1) locale though. > > So I'd like to know what the output of the 'locale' is on the user's > computer Hello. Thanks for your reply. The locale output is: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= -- With respect, Roman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
