Package: stepic Version: 0.5.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: l10n upstream Dear Maintainer,
I've tried to use stepic command line script to hide some Cyrillic text in UTF-8 inside a PNG image, and found out that if stepic correctly encodes it (and this text is decoded by older Python2 based version of Stepic from ubuntu xenial), it fails to decode non-ascii text. It seems that stepic interprets bytes extracted from image as ISO8859-1 text and converts them to utf-8 before outputing to stdout or writing to output file. Moreover, it does so regardless of current locale settings. i have to "convert" stepic output "from utf-8" "to iso8859-1" with iconv to get correct UTF-8 text. I think that at least when writing output to file stepic should write bytes extactly as they were extracted from image for they might be some binary data such as encrypted text. It is better to not do any encoding conversion event when writing to stdout. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages stepic depends on: ii python3 3.7.3-1 ii python3-pil 5.4.1-2+deb10u2 stepic recommends no packages. stepic suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
