Package: xwpe Version: 1.5.30a-4.2 Severity: minor Tags: upstream The Info viewer (Help -> Info) does not handle UTF-8 encoded text. Modern info pages contain UTF-8 characters for translations (Cyrillic, Chinese, accented Latin characters for Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, etc.). xwpe displays these as garbled sequences because it reads files byte-by-byte and cannot decode multi-byte UTF-8.
Steps to reproduce: 1. Run xwpe (or wpe) 2. Open Help -> Info 3. Scroll down to the translated sections (e.g. help2man-sr, help2man-uk, help2man-zh_CN, help2man-es, help2man-fr, help2man-pt_BR, help2man-ro) Expected: Correctly rendered UTF-8 text, e.g.: - Spanish: "Generacion automatica de la pagina del manual." - French: "Creation automatique de page de manuel." - Romanian: "Generare automata a paginii de manual." - Cyrillic: Readable Russian/Ukrainian/Serbian text - Chinese: Readable Chinese characters Examples of garbled text: - @C@3 instead of o-acute (Spanish "Generaci@C@3n") Root cause seems to be that xwpe is a legacy C89 application that predates UTF-8 spread usage. Text rendering functions need to be revisited. -- System Information: Architecture: amd64 Kernel: Linux 7.0.9-1-amd64
