Bug#505893: x11-utils: xmessage ignores locale encoding

2016-04-19 Thread Yuriy M. Kaminskiy
Control: found -1 x11-utils/7.7+2 Control: tags -1 patch thanks For the record: 1) xmessage 1.0.4 was included in 7.7+1 2) ...however, as of jessie, xmessage seems still broken; 3) I've found workaround: python -c 'print u"aix\xf2".encode("utf-8")' | \ xmessage -xrm '*international:true'

Bug#505893: x11-utils: xmessage ignores locale encoding

2010-01-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
found 505893 x11-utils/7.5+1 thanks On 2008-11-16 17:39:58 +0100, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer wrote: > It seems that xmessage always assumes an 8-bit-per-character or iso-8859 > encoding, regardless of locale settings. [...] Same problem. FYI I'm now using gxmessage, which seems to behave correctly.

Bug#505893: x11-utils: xmessage ignores locale encoding

2008-11-16 Thread Ivan Vilata i Balaguer
Package: x11-utils Version: 7.3+2 Severity: normal Tags: l10n It seems that xmessage always assumes an 8-bit-per-character or iso-8859 encoding, regardless of locale settings. For instance, running:: python -c 'print u"aix\xf2".encode("utf-8")' | xmessage -file - or (under an UTF-8 locale)::