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regarding screen: corrupts non-ASCII UTF-8 characters in caption
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Package: screen
Version: 4.0.1-3
Severity: normal
Japanese characters don't display correctly in screen's ``caption'' if
using ja_JP.UTF-8 locale.
I tried Portuguese UTF-8 characters and they seem to work fine, as well
as Japanese EUC-JP characters. The problem is specific with
ja_JP.UTF-8.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux fantomas 2.4.21 #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 14:23:00 BRT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.5.4 Debian base system master password
ii debconf 1.3.15 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncursesw5 5.3.20030719-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpam0g 0.76-14 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
-- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: screen
Source-Version: 5.0.2-1
Done: Peter Dey <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
screen, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Peter Dey <[email protected]> (supplier of updated screen package)
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:57:57 +0200
Source: screen
Architecture: source
Version: 5.0.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Axel Beckert <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Peter Dey <[email protected]>
Closes: 215955 860922 948761 1140624 1144637 1145436
Changes:
screen (5.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Peter Dey ]
* New upstream release 5.0.2
* Refresh patch queue for 5.0.2 and drop patches applied upstream
* Document how to copy screen5 terminfo (Closes: #1140624)
* Simplified xterm scrollback buffer example to xterm* (Closes: #948761)
* Add patch 103: Fail if requested baud not successfully applied (Closes:
#860922)
* Add patch 104: Fix UTF-8 caption handling for non-ASCII titles (Closes:
#215955)
* Add patch 105: Fix UTF-8 hardstatus/caption width accounting
* Add patch 106: Avoid UTF-8 double-encoding in xterm OSC forwarding
* Add patch 107: Force absolute cursor restore after hardstatus redraw
(Closes: #1145436)
* Add patch 108: Drop deflogin/login from documentation and example screenrc
(Closes: #1144637)
.
[ Otto Kekäläinen ]
* Bump Debhelper version from 13 to 14
* Update d/watch to use uscan v5 format
* Update git repository layout to follow DEP-14
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