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UTF-8 doesn't show all characters

Bug #160720 reported by Nafallo Bjälevik
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Bug Description

When William (Fujitsu) joined #ubuntu-se in irssi he couldn't see the special characters used in Swedish (åäö), but saw '?' instead. His system uses en_AU.UTF-8, so he should have been able to see them as double-coded OOTB. Instead, he had to generate sv_SE.UTF-8 (just have them generated is fine). We need to investigate the cause of this, and which package this is a bug in.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

What terminal emulator was William using?

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

I was using gnome-terminal, I believe. I also seem to recall that irssi was running over an SSH session.

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Savvas Radevic (medigeek) wrote :

I have en_GB and couldn't reproduce the bug. I tried between irssi and xchat
$ apt-cache policy irssi
irssi:
  Installed: 0.8.12-4ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.8.12-4ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.12-4ubuntu2 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.24.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

Does this still occur? Do you know if it's related to the irssi package?

Can you post the output of the command:
apt-cache policy irssi gnome-terminal

Can you try with Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex or with the release in development, Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don\'t hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

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status: Incomplete → Invalid
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