Bug#505893: x11-utils: xmessage ignores locale encoding

To: Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan@selidor.net>
Cc: 505893@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#505893: x11-utils: xmessage ignores locale encoding
From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:45:11 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 20100107114511.GA15634@prunille.vinc17.org>
Reply-to: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>, 505893@bugs.debian.org
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found 505893 x11-utils/7.5+1
thanks

On 2008-11-16 17:39:58 +0100, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer wrote:
> It seems that xmessage always assumes an 8-bit-per-character or iso-8859
> encoding, regardless of locale settings.
[...]

Same problem.

FYI I'm now using gxmessage, which seems to behave correctly.

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