Bug 17919

Summary: broken encoding of Russian menu
Product: Branch 4.0 Reporter: Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component: elinksAssignee: at <at>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact: Q.A. 4.0 <qa-4.0>
Severity: major    
Priority: P2 CC: shakirov
Version: 4.0   
Hardware: all   
OS: Linux   

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-11-17 21:19:49 MSK
elinks-0.11.3-alt1.1

In Lite 4.0.3, start a terminal, and run links in it. Press ESC, ESC.

Result: you see the menu bar above: 

    æÁÊÌ    ÷ÉÄ    óÓÙÌËÉ    Tools    îÁÓÔÒÏÊËÁ    óÐÒÁ×ËÁ         

(incorrectly encoded Russian).

Expected result: correctly encoded Russian.

Info: $ locale
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
$ 

Workaround: 
$ LC_ALL=C links

then you happily see the readable English interface.
Comment 1 Lenar Shakirov 2010-11-06 18:30:08 MSK
elinks-0.12-alt0.9 на p5
Не воспроизводится.