Bug#328430: xprint: Numbers not printed after GBP pound sign!
Package: xprint Version: 1:0.1.0.alpha1-11 Severity: important I noticed this when printing from Mozilla Firefox. Whenever the page contains a £123 the 123 is missing on the print out. Not handy feature for printing your bank statements! It happens on any page with £signs in. My work around has been to not use xprint, but to ask Firefox to print using postscript operators, which works ok. I'd like to use xprint, some output is better than using ps, but this bug makes it unusable by me. rich lott -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8r3air Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages xprint depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libice66.8.2.dfsg.1-6Inter-Client Exchange library ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6X Window System Session Management ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6X Window System protocol client li ii libxaw76.8.2.dfsg.1-6X Athena widget set library ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxmu66.8.2.dfsg.1-6X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6X Window System printing extension ii libxpm46.8.2.dfsg.1-6X pixmap library ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6X Toolkit Intrinsics ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6X Window System client libraries m ii xprint-common 1:0.1.0.alpha1-11 Xprint - the X11 print system (con ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime xprint recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
Bug#328430: xprint: Numbers not printed after GBP pound sign!
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:18 +0100, rich lott wrote: I noticed this when printing from Mozilla Firefox. Whenever the page contains a £123 the 123 is missing on the print out. Not handy feature for printing your bank statements! It happens on any page with £signs in. Thanks for the report, Rich. It's helpful for this kind of report to give a sample url which reproduces your problem. As it is, the numbers and £ sign are printing fine here (I tested against www.amazon.co.uk). I use a UTF-8 locale. I notice yours is ISO-8859. Could you consider installing a UTF-8 locale and reporting back if the problem goes away when you use it? dpkg-reconfigure locales. (It may in fact be sufficient simply to invoke LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 firefox without compiling the UTF-8 locale, but I'm not sure. Best to compile it and set it as default to be sure both Xprt and firefox are using it.) In the meantime, think of it as a security feature - no one will know how much money is in your account... Drew
Bug#328430: xprint: Numbers not printed after GBP pound sign!
Hey, thanks for reply. I've been meaning to report this bug for ages, and now I get round to it I can't replicate it, even though it's been a consistant problem for a while. Thanks for the hint about locales (which I confess that I really don't understand), will try faffing with that next time I get a problem, then report back. Sorry for dud bug report! When I get it again, I'll submit example page. ta. rich On Thursday 15 September 2005 11:01, Drew Parsons wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:18 +0100, rich lott wrote: I noticed this when printing from Mozilla Firefox. Whenever the page contains a £123 the 123 is missing on the print out. Not handy feature for printing your bank statements! It happens on any page with £signs in. Thanks for the report, Rich. It's helpful for this kind of report to give a sample url which reproduces your problem. As it is, the numbers and £ sign are printing fine here (I tested against www.amazon.co.uk). I use a UTF-8 locale. I notice yours is ISO-8859. Could you consider installing a UTF-8 locale and reporting back if the problem goes away when you use it? dpkg-reconfigure locales. (It may in fact be sufficient simply to invoke LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 firefox without compiling the UTF-8 locale, but I'm not sure. Best to compile it and set it as default to be sure both Xprt and firefox are using it.) In the meantime, think of it as a security feature - no one will know how much money is in your account... Drew
