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Date:      Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:16:44 GMT
From:      Cristian KLEIN <cristi@net.utcluj.ro>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/114598: [patch] misc/mc - UTF-8 support
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>Number:         114598
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [patch] misc/mc - UTF-8 support
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 15 10:20:02 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Cristian KLEIN
>Release:        7.0-CURRENT
>Organization:
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
>Environment:
FreeBSD hades.local 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #6: Wed Jul 11 17:31:33 EEST 2007     root@hades.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
misc/mc does not have proper UTF-8 support. More precisely, 

* mc is unable to display UTF-8 files
* mcedit is unable to edit UTF-8 files
* some l10n artifacts appear in menu bar etc.

>How-To-Repeat:
[I hope GNATS is UTF-8 compliant.]

Enter a shell using an UTF-8 capable terminal emulator. For example, if you use gnome-terminal, make sure Terminal->Encoding is set to UTF-8. Then in csh type:

setenv LANG ro_RO.UTF-8
echo "&#259;во&#351;&#355;" > &#259;&#355;
ls -l
mc
mcedit &#259;&#355;

Expected behaviour:
* mc should show &#259;&#355; in directory listing.
* mcedit should show &#259;во&#351;&#355;

Actual behaviour:
* mc shows ??
* mcedit shows something unreadable

>Fix:
The following patch is adapted from the Gentoo Portage tree. Apply it like this:

cd /usr/ports/misc/mc
fetch http://users.utcluj.ro/~cristiklein/patches/mc-utf8.patch
patch -p0 -E < mc-utf8.patch

NOTE: This patch adds as dependency devel/libslang2. It can just as well add devel/libslang with proper UTF-8 support. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114569

BUGS: Using devel/libslang2 will disable line drawing capability in cons25. Not a big issue since the user may choose not to include UTF-8 support, if line drawing in cons25 is really desired.


Patch attached with submission follows:

The patch for this PR can be found at http://users.utcluj.ro/~cristiklein/patches/mc-utf8.patch


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