Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 11 years ago
#26017 new defect
aqualess-1.6 AquaLess.app ignores set UTF-8 locale and thus does not display correctly UTF-8 encoded text — at Initial Version
Reported by: | maehne (Torsten Maehne) | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | 1.9.1 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Port: | aqualess |
Description
AquaLess.app
seems to ignore a set UTF-8 locale thus displaying incorrectly text containing umlauts and other special characters received via aless from the command line.
I set-up my Mac OS X 10.6.4 to use the de_CH.UTF-8
locale in the terminal via the LANG
and LC_ALL
environment variables. All command line tools (e.g., svn
, gcc
, man
, less
, locale
) correctly take the locale with the specified text encoding into account, but AquaLess.app
launched via aless
seems to ignore this locale. AquaLess.app
seems to take only into account the region specified under "Formats" in the "Language and Text" pane of the system preferences, which in turn seems to set just a "de_CH", "en_US", etc. locale without ".UTF-8" suffix.
I was not able to find a solution for this problem by searching the web, but only hints that it matters where the environment variables are set. I have tried all possibles I found, namely:
- Specifying the environment variables on the command line for the current shell:
$ export LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 $ export LC_ALL=de_CH.UTF-8
- Specifying the environment variables in
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
- Specifying the environment variables in
/etc/launchd.conf
The effect was always the same: The locale with text encoding is set correctly in the shell of iTerm.app
and Terminal.app
, but AquaLess.app
is ignoring the specified text encoding.
To verify this wrong behaviour in AquaLess.app
, it suffices to execute the following commands from a Bash shell in Terminal.app
$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 $ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Then less correctly displays a string containing umlauts and other special characters:
$ echo "öäüéàè\`¿´^'ç°" | less
However, AquaLess.app
fails for the same string:
$ echo "öäüéàè\`¿´^'ç°" | aless
It displays "öäüéà è`¿´'ç°" ignoring the UTF-8 text encoding.
aless
should either forward the text encoding used in the terminal or AquaLess.app
should provide in its Preferences pane a setting to configure the text encoding.