#26017: aqualess-1.6 AquaLess.app ignores set UTF-8 locale and thus does not display correctly UTF-8 encoded text -------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: Torsten.Maehne@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 1.9.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: aqualess | -------------------------------+-------------------------------- Changes (by ryandesign@…): * keywords: UTF-8, locale => Old 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:

1. 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 }}}

2. Specifying the environment variables in {{{~/.MacOSX/environment.plist}}}

3. 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 "öäüéàè`¿´^'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.

New 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: 1. 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 }}} 2. Specifying the environment variables in {{{~/.MacOSX/environment.plist}}} 3. 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 "{{{öäüéàè`¿´^'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. -- Comment: This is not a MacPorts-specific problem. Please report it to the developers of AquaLess; they're the ones who have to fix it. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/26017#comment:2> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS