Bug 1801 - irssi: can't bind accented characters
Summary: irssi: can't bind accented characters
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 1
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Scherer
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Reported: 2011-06-14 19:45 CEST by kyak kyak
Modified: 2011-08-17 11:25 CEST (History)
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Source RPM: irssi-0.8.15-6.mga1.src.rpm
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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, è, à, ù) 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
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