Package: lbdb Version: 0.36 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi,
lbdb-fetchaddr uses latin9 as default charset, unless another one is given on the commandline. While I agree that using a unibyte charset is the only sane default when no precise information about the system is available, I think fetchaddr should respect locale environment variables as do most other sensible programs. I suppose most users use UTF-8 like me, and for those the current behaviour is just broken and forces them to look for a workaround (in this case searching the lbdb-fetchaddr manpage for the charset commandline option which is not so obvious I think). >From what I read up in a few minutes, a simple change like: > 28a29,30 > #include <locale.h> > #include <langinfo.h> 125a128,132 > #ifdef HAVE_ICONV > /* set locale so as to enable a query for the preferred db file > encoding */ > setlocale (LC_ALL, ""); > *charsetptr = nl_langinfo (CODESET); > #endif to fetchaddr.c should to it (it works for me, but could perhaps need some beautification like tests for locale headers or so). Kind regards, Jens Stimpfle PS: I've removed the System Information reportbug initially created below, because I tested the above on a squeeze system, but can't get reportbug to use non-standard sendmail there, and this here is a lenny system... I hope this isn't a problem -- I am not so much in the bug-tracking netiquette. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
