Bug#471899: vnc4server: German umlauts don't seem to work
It is not too OT. I used realvnc 3.3.6 vnc viewer. However I suspect that this is a locale mismatch problem rather than a specific client vnc viewer problem. Just tried realvnc 4.1.2 viewer - that does NOT work. Will try to dig up the version you mentioned, but I expect you're right. I'm not sure if all windows versions actually have good support for pure UTF-8. Hmm ... where exactly does locale come into it? Changing system locales at either end is out since it'd break a ton of other stuff. Is there any locale-relevant stuff in VNC that's configurable? Maybe it needs the keyboard layout set? Thanks, C. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#471899: vnc4server: German umlauts don't seem to work
Hi On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:02:54PM +0100, Christian Pernegger wrote: It is not too OT. I used realvnc 3.3.6 vnc viewer. However I suspect that this is a locale mismatch problem rather than a specific client vnc viewer problem. Just tried realvnc 4.1.2 viewer - that does NOT work. Will try to dig up the version you mentioned, but I expect you're right. I'm not sure if all windows versions actually have good support for pure UTF-8. Hmm ... where exactly does locale come into it? Changing system locales at either end is out since it'd break a ton of other stuff. Yes I understand. However in some cases that may be needed. Is there any locale-relevant stuff in VNC that's configurable? Maybe it needs the keyboard layout set? Not really. Vnc is just yet another X server, which means that you can set it by using X tools like xrdp or such. It may also vary a lot between applications. For example I did not successfully enter åäöÅÄÖ in the xterm but in a gnome application it works just fine. Best regards, // Ola Thanks, C. -- --- Ola Lundqvist systemkonsult --- M Sc in IT Engineering / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37\ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD| | http://opalsys.net/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#471899: vnc4server: German umlauts don't seem to work
Do you know if German characters work if you run from Linux? No, I don't have a native Linux desktop at hand. However I was able to test on a Mac in the interim and it does work using Chicken of the VNC as client. I have also checked with a windows computer and Swedish caracters work fine there as well. Ok, so it works in principle ... any win32 client recommendations, since tightvnc-viewer is obviously broken, at least on Windows? (Maybe via private mail if it's too OT) Have you installed the proper locales? The server is pure UTF-8 (de-AT and ja-JP), the Windows boxes are German versions with Japanese as default charset. Resetting that to German does not help, though. Feel free to close the bug and sorry for suspecting the server. Regards, C. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#471899: vnc4server: German umlauts don't seem to work
Hallo Christian Thanks for the report. Do you know if German characters work if you run from Linux? The reason is that it works fine with Swedish characters and as far as I know they are the same in Sweden and Germany (åäöÅÄÖ). Maybe it is related to windows... I have also checked with a windows computer and Swedish caracters work fine there as well. Have you installed the proper locales? ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8? Best regards, // Ola On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:02:22AM +0100, Christian Pernegger wrote: Package: vnc4server Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-21 Severity: important I'm using a German keyboard on the client (tightvnc-viewer on Windows) and would like to be able to input German umlauts with it as usual. However, my auml; uuml; ouml; and szlig; always get stripped and show up as a, u, o and s respectively. If it's the server's fault it will probably affect more 8bit-ASCII languages and thus be rather annoying to a lot of people. Then again it might be configurable (pointers, please) or the client's fault. Regards, C. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages vnc4server depends on: ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc11:4.3.0~rc2-1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.0~rc2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension ii vnc4-common [vnc-commo 4.1.1+X4.3.0-21 Virtual network computing server s ii x11-common 1:7.2-5 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc ii xbase-clients 1:7.2.ds2-2 miscellaneous X clients ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages vnc4server recommends: ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5 standard fonts for X -- no debconf information -- - Ola Lundqvist --- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://opalsys.net/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#471899: vnc4server: German umlauts don't seem to work
Package: vnc4server Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-21 Severity: important I'm using a German keyboard on the client (tightvnc-viewer on Windows) and would like to be able to input German umlauts with it as usual. However, my auml; uuml; ouml; and szlig; always get stripped and show up as a, u, o and s respectively. If it's the server's fault it will probably affect more 8bit-ASCII languages and thus be rather annoying to a lot of people. Then again it might be configurable (pointers, please) or the client's fault. Regards, C. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages vnc4server depends on: ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc11:4.3.0~rc2-1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.0~rc2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension ii vnc4-common [vnc-commo 4.1.1+X4.3.0-21 Virtual network computing server s ii x11-common 1:7.2-5 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc ii xbase-clients 1:7.2.ds2-2 miscellaneous X clients ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages vnc4server recommends: ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5 standard fonts for X -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
