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zhcon package

zhcon --utf8 truncates output on non-Chinese character

Bug #439697 reported by Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler on 2009-09-30

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	zhcon (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: zhcon

When run with the --utf8 option, zhcon internally converts client output from UTF-8 to the internal zhcon encoding (GB2312/GBK/EUC-KR/etc.) and does the corresponding reverse translation to UTF-8 for input from the user. However, when a character in the program output is not convertible from UTF-8 to the currently selected internal coding, zhcon silently truncates the output buffer, often discarding lots of following (potentially convertible) output. As an example:

$ zhcon --utf8
# assume zhcon is now using GB2312 internal encoding
$ env LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 ls --help
# note that output is strangely truncated after a few lines

Really something more sensible should be done, such as converting untranslatable characters to '?'.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: zhcon 1:0.2.6-6ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: zhcon
Uname: Linux 2.6.25-20090223.1.olpc.69098d87d56945c i586

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lp:ubuntu/oneiric/zhcon

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Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler (bsittler) wrote on 2009-09-30:

Dependencies.txt Edit (976 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Patch to use glibc's iconv extension //TRANSLIT to automatically handle untranslatable output Edit (877 bytes, text/plain)

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-06-12:

This bug was fixed in the package zhcon - 1:0.2.6-7

---------------
zhcon (1:0.2.6-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * New mainainer (Closes: #629012)
  * Switch to dh7 style, use compat=7, "quilt (3.0)" format
    standards-version 3.9.2.
  * Convert to quilt patch system:
    - Drop useless patches:
      input_amd64.patch, gcc-3.4.patch (applied upstream).
    - Set LC_CTYPE instead of LC_ALL, using any UTF-8 LC_CTYPE value
      available on the system is sufficient to function.
      (Closes: #243856)
    - Use Glibc iconv extension when available. (LP: #439697)
  * debian/postinst, debian/dirs: removed, useless.
  * Add libgpm-dev to build-dep to enable gpm support.
  * Drop debconf templates because framebuffer is enabled by default in
    a Debian kernel and other major Linux distributions.
  * Change to build on linux-any platforms because framebuffer does not
    exist on others.
  * Document options in manpage (Closes: #389421)
  * Acknowledge NMU (Closes: #561491, #513666, #560785)
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