Bug#816289: luit: unable to use advertised conversion charset
Package: x11-utils
Version: 7.7+3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
I find myself in the situation of wishing to change the
charset for a remote session, i.e. ssh to a cp1252 system
from an UTF-8 system. I thought to use luit for this, but:
tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ luit -encoding 'CP 1252' echo mäh
Warning: couldn't find charset data for locale CP 1252; using ISO 8859-1.
mäh
tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ luit -encoding microsoft-cp1252 echo mäh
Warning: couldn't find charset data for locale microsoft-cp1252; using ISO 8859-1.
mäh
tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ luit -list | fgrep 1252
CP 1252
This is not specific to Debian (Cc’ing the original author from
the manpage), as I can reproduce it also on MirBSD with XFree86®.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages x11-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.21-9
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3
ii libfontenc1 1:1.1.3-1
ii libfreetype6 2.6.1-0.1
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 11.1.2-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.3-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1
ii libxcb-shape0 1.11.1-1
ii libxcb1 1.11.1-1
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1
ii libxft2 2.3.2-1
ii libxi6 2:1.7.6-1
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2
ii libxmuu1 2:1.1.2-2
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.9-2
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii libxv1 2:1.0.10-1+b1
ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.1.4-1+b1
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.4-1
x11-utils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages x11-utils suggests:
pn mesa-utils <none>
-- no debconf information
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