UTF-8 bugs (was: Deadline for jessie init system choice)

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2013-12-14 14:46:03 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Pavel Volkov wrote:
> > What's wrong with UTF-8 currently?
> 
>   fmt: incorrect formatting of UTF-8 text
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650381
> 
>   tr: fails to replace umlauts
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388689
>   tr fails with UTF-8
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431231
>   _CTYPE with UTF-8 doesn't work correctly
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139861
>   tr cannot handle unicode
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613155
> 
>   uniq: merges obscure Cyrillic characters
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649729
> 
> I am sure there is more.

Here are a few other ones:

* scp output alignment bug with UTF-8/multibyte sequences
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407088
  I've just reported it upstream.

* xmessage ignores locale encoding
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505893
  (and in particular it is wrong with UTF-8 locales)

* xpp does not support UTF-8
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630717

* xprop assumes that WM_ICON_NAME and WM_NAME are encoded in ISO-8859-1
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699746

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