misc/144377: Display of discritics is mildly broken
Ollivier Robert
>Number: 144377
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Display of discritics is mildly broken
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 28 22:20:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ollivier Robert
>Release: FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE amd64
>Organization:
Usenet Canal Historique
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD centre.keltia.net 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #9 r200048M: Thu Dec 3 12:46:31 CET 2009 ro...@ng.keltia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KELTIA amd64
LANG=en-US.ISO8859-15
>Description:
Running ee at the console and typing diacritics (like � or �) shows
letters as blinking characters in reverse video.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run ee, type one '�' and observe.
>Fix:
Not sure whether it is a ncurses or a ee issue but in 7.2 it used to
work fine (even though it didn't in an xterm).
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
Garrett Cooper
From: Garrett Cooper <yane...@gmail.com>
To: Ollivier Robert <rob...@freebsd.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gn...@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl>
Subject: Re: misc/144377: Display of discritics is mildly broken
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:30:35 -0800
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Ollivier Robert <rob...@freebsd.org> wrot=
e:
>
>>Number: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 144377
>>Category: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 misc
>>Synopsis: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Display of discritics is mildly broken
>>Confidential: =C2=A0 no
>>Severity: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 non-critical
>>Priority: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 medium
>>Responsible: =C2=A0 =C2=A0freebsd-bugs
>>State: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0open
>>Quarter:
>>Keywords:
>>Date-Required:
>>Class: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0sw-bug
>>Submitter-Id: =C2=A0 current-users
>>Arrival-Date: =C2=A0 Sun Feb 28 22:20:01 UTC 2010
>>Closed-Date:
>>Last-Modified:
>>Originator: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Ollivier Robert
>>Release: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE amd64
>>Organization:
> Usenet Canal Historique
>>Environment:
> System: FreeBSD centre.keltia.net 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #9 r20004=
8M: Thu Dec 3 12:46:31 CET 2009 ro...@ng.keltia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KEL=
TIA amd64
>
> LANG=3Den-US.ISO8859-15
>
>>Description:
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Running ee at the console and typing diacritic=
s (like =C3=A9 or =C4=8D) shows
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0letters as blinking characters in reverse video.
>>How-To-Repeat:
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Run ee, type one '=C3=A9' and observe.
>>Fix:
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0Not sure whether it is a ncurses or a ee issue but in 7.2 it=
used to
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0work fine (even though it didn't in an xterm).
Hi Ed,
Could this be related to the syscons changes in 8.x?
Thanks,
-Garrett
Ed Schouten
From: Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl>
To: Garrett Cooper <yane...@gmail.com>
Cc: Ollivier Robert <rob...@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-gn...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/144377: Display of discritics is mildly broken
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:55:54 +0100
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Hi Garrett,
* Garrett Cooper <yane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could this be related to the syscons changes in 8.x?
Quite odd. ache@ fixed this bug in HEAD, but it seems it didn't get MFCd
back to 8.x.
Can you folks try the following patch to see whether it fixes the issue?
http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/contrib/ee/ee.c?r1=3D192954&r2=3D1=
96750&view=3Dpatch
Greetings,
--=20
Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl>
WWW: http://80386.nl/
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