Package: sup-mail Version: 0.6+20081111-1 Severity: normal As documented in the ‘sup-talk’ mailing list on ‘rubyforge.org’ <URL:http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/sup-talk/2008-April/001412.html>, the default Ruby gem for ncurses (used by ‘sup-mail’) cannot correctly display Unicode characters.
This causes any non-ASCII (in my case, ‘utf-8’ encoded) characters to display as mojibake <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake>. The thread discusses a hack to fix it; I don't know whether a better solution is to depend on a corrected ncurses library. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-powerpc64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages sup-mail depends on: ii libchronic-ruby 0.2.3-1 natural language date parser ii libferret-ruby1.8 0.11.6-2 full text search engine library fo ii libgettext-ruby1.8 1.93.0-1 Gettext for ruby1.8 ii libhighline-ruby 1.4.0-1 High-level interactive IO Ruby lib ii liblockfile-ruby 1.4.3-2 create NFS-safe lockfiles ii libmime-types-ruby 1.15-2 guess MIME type of files ii libncurses-ruby 1.1-3 ruby Extension for the ncurses C l ii libnet-ssh-ruby1.8 1.1.2-1 pure ruby module that emulates an ii librmail-ruby1.8 0.17-1 lightweight mail library for Ruby ii libtrollop-ruby 1.9-1 command-line argument processing l ii ruby 4.2 An interpreter of object-oriented sup-mail recommends no packages. sup-mail suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- \ “Nature abhors a moron.” —Henry L. Mencken | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
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