Text in help-window garbled
Submitted by Mikhail T.
Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage
Description
Created attachment 8469 Window-shot illustrating the problem
I set the LANG environment variable is set to uk_UA.KOI8-U. The help is trying to show me the Ukrainian version, but messes things up -- most likely, because no one has ever tested it in any encoding other than UTF-8.
Attachment 8469, "Window-shot illustrating the problem":
Version: 4.12.1
Activity
the text is also garbled for screenshooter's dialogs?
No, the buttons and other GUI-elements are all fine...
Out of curiosity, why use an encoding other than UTF-8?
I, and all of my local users, only know three languages -- Ukrainian, Russian, and English. Character-sets of all three can be expressed in KOI8-U -- a single-byte encoding. Why do we need to use a multi-byte encoding?
Using the solution from Bug #15350 makes any difference?
Of course, not -- that's only applicable to names of the files on the filesystem...
This might be the same problem as in Bug #11317, however -- where the already-UTF8 text was, erroneously, passed through "g_locale_to_utf8" again. That was fixed in:
https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/commit/?id=0cd22546f9d64cbb47697f23d62ed099378617e1
(P.S. I can not change the status from "NEEDINFO" to anything other than a "RESOLVED something". This is, probably, a bug in your Bugzilla workflow.)
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@andreldmsaid:I'm running "LANG=uk_UA.koi8u xfce4-screenshooter" and that dialog looks just right. What libxfce4ui version do you have installed? Try to call this help dialog from other apps, such as Thunar, panel or xfdesktop (settings), what happens?
Why do we need to use a multi-byte encoding?
Because except for very specific use cases, saving some megabytes on a desktop might not be worth the trouble of breaking some apps. I know they are supposed to work with whatever encoding is out there, but UTF-8 is so much more easy for devs...
This might be the same problem as in Bug #11317, however -- where the already-UTF8 text was, erroneously, passed through "g_locale_to_utf8" again. That was fixed in:
https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/commit/ ?id=0cd22546f9d64cbb47697f23d62ed099378617e1
I can't find any occurrence of that function in xfce4-screenshooter nor libxfce4ui.
(P.S. I can not change the status from "NEEDINFO" to anything other than a "RESOLVED something". This is, probably, a bug in your Bugzilla workflow.)
Hopefully we will move to gitlab after 4.14, so this will not be a problem anymore.
Note to myself: Need to remove "auto-online" from ~/.config/xfce4/help.rc to get this dialog again.
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What libxfce4ui version do you have installed?
I have the following libxfce* packages installed:
libxfce4gui-4.10.0_6 libxfce4menu-4.12.1_2 libxfce4util-4.12.1
saving some megabytes on a desktop
I started using computers, when 64Kb of RAM was A LOT -- for a mainframe... Besides, it could be a lot more -- any text using Cyrillics doubles in size, when converted to UTF8.
might not be worth the trouble of breaking some apps
Such apps are already broken 8)
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@andreldmsaid:(In reply to Mikhail T. from comment 6)
What libxfce4ui version do you have installed?
I have the following libxfce* packages installed:
libxfce4gui-4.10.0_6 libxfce4menu-4.12.1_2 libxfce4util-4.12.1
Are you sure libxfce4ui is properly installed? libxfce4menu and libxfce4gui were deprecated and archived long ago.
