Bug 41857

Summary:	luit cp866 encoding mentioned in man but does not working
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Matej Cepl <mcepl>
Component:	App/luit	Assignee:	Thomas E. Dickey <dickey>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Thomas E. Dickey <dickey>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	low	CC:	pahan
Version:	7.6 (2010.12)
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	2011BRB_Reviewed
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Matej Cepl 2011-10-17 00:58:50 UTC

(originally filed as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746506)

And I have not found official bugtracker for luit. So, found there patch
http://gentoo.ru/node/9440 (page on Russian) may help. I have test it, but
until cant't fix issue. So, may be for others it do more.
$ luit -encoding 'CP 866' -v ./cp866.app
Warning: couldn't find charset data for locale CP 866; using ISO 8859-1.
G0 is ASCII, G1 is Unknown (94), G2 is ISO 8859-1, G3 is Unknown (94).
GL is G0, GR is G2.
Test.
Description of problem:
Luit mention cp866 in supported encodings:
$ luit -list | grep 866
  CP 866

But in fact i does not working:
# localedef -i ru_RU -f IBM866 ru_RU.cp866

$ LANG=ru_RU.cp866 luit -encoding 'CP 866' -v ./cp866.app
Warning: couldn't find charset data for locale CP 866; using ISO 8859-1.
G0 is ASCII, G1 is Unknown (94), G2 is ISO 8859-1, G3 is Unknown (94).
GL is G0, GR is G2.
Test.

cp866.app consist from single line:
echo "Test. Русский текст для теста" | iconv -f utf-8 -t CP866

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -q xorg-x11-apps 
xorg-x11-apps-7.6-2.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Comment 1 Thomas E. Dickey 2012-10-15 09:33:23 UTC

I addressed this in http://invisible-island.net/luit/luit.log.html#t20111030

Comment 2 Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) 2012-10-16 08:50:59 UTC

Thank you very much! I'll try.

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