Package: moreutils Version: 0.34 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/vidir I have a UTF-8 system, but occasionally, some filenames will still be non-UTF-8, e.g.
touch ü $(echo ü | iconv -t latin1) If I use vidir on that directory, the tmpfile will be encoded with latin1, which breaks the UTF-8 symbols. I think it should instead force the editor to use a UTF-8 encoding (e.g. by running the file through `iconv -t utf-8` before spawning the editor, because this would embody the general trend to fade out the non-UTF-8 encodings. Also, at least vim has ways to deal with "invalid bytes" (e.g. latin1 characters in UTF-8 documents), but vim cannot identify UTF-8 multibyte characters in non-UTF-8 documents. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages moreutils depends on: ii libc6 2.9-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction moreutils recommends no packages. Versions of packages moreutils suggests: pn libtime-duration-perl <none> (no description available) ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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