Bug#410648: gnome-terminal is NOT usable in ja_JP.UTF-8

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 12 février 2007 à 19:31 +0900, green a écrit :
> Package: gnome-terminal
> Version: 2.14.2-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> gnome-terminal can not show only Japanese characters
> correctly in ja_JP.UTF-8 mode as follows:
> 
> debian:/home/foo# apt-get upgrade
> �ѥå������ꥹ�Ȥ��ɤ߹����Ǥ��ޤ�... ��λ%
 <��¸�ط��ĥ꡼���������Ƥ��ޤ�... ��λ
> ���åץ��졼��: 0 �ġ��������󥹥ȡ���: 0 �ġ�����: 0 �ġ���α: 0 �ġ�
> 
> So I had to do this with LANG=C option.
> 
> debian:/home/foo# LANG=C apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 
> But it quite ok in ja_JP.EUC-JP.

This is most likely because the terminal itself was launched with the
ja_JP.EUC-JP locale, and therefore believes what is displayed in the
terminal is in this encoding. Thus, this behaviour is expected.

Cheers,
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