Package: whiptail Version: 0.51.6-28 Severity: wishlist If I feed my whiptail with characters which aren't present in the current locale whiptail is unable to handle these characters. You can't delete the feeded input whithin the input box.
This occurs for instance with the locale LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C and characters like '???'. This problem is somewhat relevant for debconf (with which I discovered this bug) as debconf accepted a special character and saved it. In a second run of debconf I wasn't able to fix the bad input of the run before. Between both debconf runs I didn't touch the locale (locales haven't been installed at that stage). For easier understanding of the problem I attached a simple small shell script which calls whiptail with potentially evil options... Micha -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages whiptail depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libnewt0.51 0.51.6-28 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - tex ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libslang2 2.0.4-4 The S-Lang programming library - r whiptail recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
whiptailbug.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
