Bug#268385: gedit: Ignores locale settings when pasting non unicode text from clipboard

[Thomas Dickey]

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On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:30:09PM +0200, Default User wrote:
> Package: gedit
> Version: 2.6.2-1
> Severity: important
>=20
>=20
> Gedit completly ignores system locale for non unicode text (xterm sellect=
ion
> for example) pasted from clipboard.  It is allays treated as iso-8895-1. =
 The
> bug is rated "important" because clipboard support is critical for a text
> editor.  Please do not awnser "use UTF-8".  There is no support for defau=
lt
> non unicode codepage diferent than iso-8895-1 with Linux UTF-8 locales.  =
This
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^ (iso-8859-1)
> makes using unicode with Linux poor choice in real life.

The selection is in ISO-8859-1 anyway simply because that's the standard
behavior (for X).

>=20
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-plastic
> Locale: LANG=3Dbg_BG.CP1251, LC_CTYPE=3Dbg_BG.CP1251 (ignored: LC_ALL set=
 to bg_BG.CP1251)
>=20

--=20
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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