Bug 1801

Summary:	irssi: can't bind accented characters
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	kyak kyak <bas>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Michael Scherer <misc>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.irssi.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=553
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	irssi-0.8.15-6.mga1.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description kyak kyak 2011-06-14 19:45:19 CEST

See the upstream bug report,
http://bugs.irssi.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=553

Short summary:

Accented characters (like é, Ã¨, Ã , Ã¹) are not recognized in bindings.
This is probably due to the fact irssi is waiting for a 8 bits char while those are 16+ bits in UTF-8 encoding.

irssi developers don't seem to be ready to accept the proposed patch.

BTW, it was accepted by debian irssi packagers, though that patch went through several iterations, see here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=625690

I've been using that patch since it appeared, and it works fine.

Manuel Hiebel 2011-08-17 09:46:56 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => misc

Comment 1 Michael Scherer 2011-08-17 11:25:15 CEST

I had enough problem with patchs not accepted upstream, so I will not add another one. Once the patch is acknoledged by irssi developpers and the feature integrated and supported upstream for the next release, I will change my mind about adding it.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX