Your message dated Thu, 07 May 2026 11:08:12 +0200
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and subject line Closed - wontfix/upstream
has caused the Debian Bug report #439628,
regarding screen: convert program source code to UTF-8 encoding
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The screen program deals with characters in many encodings, but was
originally written before Unicode was a clear standard for
international character sets.
This patch (intended for use with dpatch) converts the few source
files with non-ASCII characters to use the UTF-8 encoding.
#! /bin/bash
## 40_source_encoding_utf8.dpatch by Ben Finney <[email protected]>
##
## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch.
## DP: Convert encoding of non-ASCII source files to UTF-8
set -o errexit
non_ascii_source_files="acls.c process.c help.c"
original_encoding=iso-8859-1
patched_encoding=utf-8
convert_encoding () {
local in_encoding=$1
local out_encoding=$2
local in_file=$3
local out_file=$(tempfile)
iconv --from-code $in_encoding --to-code $out_encoding $in_file > $out_file
mv $out_file $in_file
}
dpatch_patch () {
for file in $non_ascii_source_files ; do
convert_encoding $original_encoding $patched_encoding $file
done
}
dpatch_unpatch () {
for file in $non_ascii_source_files ; do
convert_encoding $patched_encoding $original_encoding $file
done
}
DPATCH_LIB_NO_DEFAULT=1
. /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.lib.sh
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Thanks for the bug report.
This has been tagged upstream/wontfix for a long time, and this is not a
Debian packaging or functional defect.
Closing accordingly.
If this is still desired, please raise a bug upstream:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=screen
--- End Message ---
