Bug#625539: /usr/bin/vlc: vlc --help ignores locale's charset

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Fri Aug 12 07:59:11 UTC 2011


close 625539
thanks

   Hello,

As can be seen from your bug report, the characters map is UTF-8:
> Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
so it is normal behavior for VLC to output Russian (LANG) in UTF-8
(LC_CTYPE).

If you wish to output with another character encoding, please configure
LC_CTYPE correctly.
Not however that future VLC versions will drop support for non-UTF-8 on
POSIX systems, so I'd advise against it.

Best regards,

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/





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