Package: joe Version: 3.5-1.1 Severity: normal
I've reverted back to Joe 3.5-1.1, because with 3.5-2 there was a regression regarding charset/encoding detection. Having still a few non-UTF8 text files over, I'm using the joerc option -guess_non_utf8. I didn't notice till now, but this feature has been working exceptionally well. With 3.5-2 it stopped. When opening a file in ISO-8859-1, joe 3.5-2 now assumes it was UTF-8 from environment vars or the current locale. Its previous sanity check does no longer work. (And as far as I tested, the actual char/encoding of a file cannot be set via commandline arguments or LC_* vars any longer either.) The regression stems from one of the recent patches, probably. I've tracked it down to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408562 ## + * Fixed CHARSET detection to use the fine system function rather than + internal workaround, noticed by Chris Brown, closes: #408562. ## The "undef HAVE_SETLOCALE" was obviously necessary to provide the joe option -guess_non_utf8. The system/libc setlocale or whatever, breaks this feature for me. (Not verified on other setups. But I believe I have a fairly standard one.) So, of course, I'd prefer a reversal of that patch. I also think the previous reporters bug #408562 might have been mitigated by the alternative option "-guess_utf8" instead. (PS: Maybe _this_ report is connected to #453310) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers intrepid-updates APT policy: (500, 'intrepid-updates'), (500, 'intrepid-security'), (500, 'intrepid') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages joe depends on: ii libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.6+20071124-1ubuntu2 Shared libraries for terminal hand joe recommends no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
