Package: minicom Version: 2.7-1.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I am using minicom with minicom -c on -R UTF-8 Serial Device : /dev/ttyUSB0 Lockfile Location : /var/lock Callin Program : Callout Program : Bps/Par/Bits : 115200 8N1 Hardware Flow Control : No Software Flow Control : No On all involved computers the locale is en_US.UTF-8. Echoing a text to the console containing Unicode letters äöüßÄÖܧ creates random results: $ cat test.txt abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 äöüßÃÖç $ cat test.txt abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 äöüßÄÃܧ $ cat test.txt abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 äöüßÃÃܧ Typing Ansi letters works on the serial console works: $ abcdefghijklmnopqrtuvwxyz -bash: abcdefghijklmnopqrtuvwxyz: command not found Typing Ansi digits works: $ 01234567890 -bash: 01234567890: command not found Typing Unicode letters (äöüßäöüßäöüß) creates random gibberish: $ äöüßäöüÃÃ¤Ã¶Ã¼ß -bash: äöüßäöüÃäöüß: command not found I tried this with different connected computers and different serial converters: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC Same problem exists with changeset: 234:d3e201383e46 tag: tip user: Adam Lackorzynski <a...@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> date: Sat Aug 12 17:06:38 2017 +0200 summary: Fix parsing of MINICOM env-var Best regards Heinrich Schuchardt -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: armhf (armv7l) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-armmp (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages minicom depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1 Versions of packages minicom recommends: ii lrzsz 0.12.21-8 minicom suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
