Bug#726125: wmtime: broken date display
Package: wmtime
Followup-For: Bug #726125
The real problem is that wmtime try to transliterate an
abbreviations for the day of week and months with libiconv.
But iconv has limited support for transliteration
and can not do it for many languages.
For example:
> echo "Вс" | iconv -f UTF8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT -
??
This is Russian, and I would expect "Vs".
There is more advanced tool "konwert" and it works perfectly
> echo "Вс" | konwert UTF8-ascii
Vs
but it is not obvious how to connect it with wmtime.
Probably the old idea to keep possible abbreviations
in /use/share/wmtime/"language" is not bad at all.
As a simple solution I would prefer to have additional
flag to switch off any attempt to transliterate and
use English names.
The patches (rather simple) are in the attachment.
Regards, Yuri
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wmtime depends on:
ii libc6 2.17-93
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.10-1
wmtime recommends no packages.
wmtime suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information--- ../wmtime-1.0b2/wmtime/wmtime.1 2013-10-15 14:05:44.0 +0400
+++ ./wmtime.1 2013-10-15 14:05:25.526108646 +0400
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@
.IR X(7x) .
.TP
+.BR \-l
+Disables the locale support and use English abbreviations for
+the day of week and months.
+
+.TP
.BR \-n , \ \-noseconds
Disables the second hand.
--- ../wmtime-1.0b2/wmtime/wmtime.c 2013-10-15 14:05:44.0 +0400
+++ ./wmtime.c 2013-10-15 14:05:25.546108815 +0400
@@ -108,12 +108,13 @@
void printversion(void);
void wmtime_routine(int, char **);
-void get_lang();
+void get_lang(void);
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int i;
char*name = argv[0];
+ int use_lang = 1;
for (i=1; i
Bug#726125: wmtime: broken date display
On 10/12/2013 02:38 PM, Nobuhiro Ban wrote: > Yes, it seems very reasonable behavior. Regards, Nobuhiro I've updated the package with this behavior. It should appear in Debian soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#726125: wmtime: broken date display
2013/10/13 Torrance, Douglas : > What behavior would you prefer? Should wmtime default to the English > names when non-Latin characters are encountered? Yes, it seems very reasonable behavior. Regards, Nobuhiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#726125: wmtime: broken date display
Thanks for the bug report!
Unfortunately, wmtime only has support for the 26 characters in the
Latin alphabet. It reads them directly from the file
wmtime/wmtime-master.xpm in the source tree.
What behavior would you prefer? Should wmtime default to the English
names when non-Latin characters are encountered?
On 10/12/2013 11:15 AM, Nobuhiro Ban wrote:
> Package: wmtime
> Version: 1.0b2-11
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> After updating wmtime to 1.0b2-11, its date-display is broken.
> It only shows 2nd char of weekday-name and day-of-month,
> i.e. it shows like " A|12- " instead of "SA|12-OCT".
>
> See attached screenshot image:
> * (0,0)-(63,63): bad (" A|12- ")
> * (0,64)-(63,127): good ("SA|12-OCT")
>
> Workaround:
> (a) run with LANG=C
> or
> (b) rebuild without debian/patches/wmtime-l10n.diff,
> it shows collect date.
>
> Additional info:
>> $ echo $LANG
>> ja_JP.UTF-8
>> $ date +'%^a|%d-%^b'
>> 土|12-10月
>> $ LANG=C date +'%^a|%d-%^b'
>> SAT|12-OCT
>
> Regards,
> Nobuhiro
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> APT prefers stable-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500,
> 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages wmtime depends on:
> ii libc6 2.17-93
> ii libx11-6 2:1.6.1-1
> ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1
> ii libxpm4 1:3.5.10-1
>
> wmtime recommends no packages.
>
> wmtime suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
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Bug#726125: wmtime: broken date display
Package: wmtime
Version: 1.0b2-11
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
After updating wmtime to 1.0b2-11, its date-display is broken.
It only shows 2nd char of weekday-name and day-of-month,
i.e. it shows like " A|12- " instead of "SA|12-OCT".
See attached screenshot image:
* (0,0)-(63,63): bad (" A|12- ")
* (0,64)-(63,127): good ("SA|12-OCT")
Workaround:
(a) run with LANG=C
or
(b) rebuild without debian/patches/wmtime-l10n.diff,
it shows collect date.
Additional info:
>$ echo $LANG
>ja_JP.UTF-8
>$ date +'%^a|%d-%^b'
>土|12-10月
>$ LANG=C date +'%^a|%d-%^b'
>SAT|12-OCT
Regards,
Nobuhiro
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500,
'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wmtime depends on:
ii libc6 2.17-93
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.1-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.10-1
wmtime recommends no packages.
wmtime suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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