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Bug 129317 - Backspace malfunctions on UTF-8 locale
Backspace malfunctions on UTF-8 locale
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.11.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
Nalin Dahyabhai
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-12-14 16:05 UTC by Paweł Sakowski
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.5/2.6


Description Paweł Sakowski 2003-12-14 16:05:38 UTC 
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Run either gnome-terminal or reflect-vte.
2. Execute "cat" under it
3. Type "j", "ó" (that is, U+00F3), Backspace, "d", Enter
4a. reflect-vte aborts with "UTF-8 validation error"
4b. gnome-terminal reproduces 'j',square,'d'.

It seems that backspace removes the last byte instead of the last character.
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2004-04-20 05:49:51 UTC 
This can't be fixed in the terminal widget alone.  When you're piping text from
the console into a file, the line-editing is handled by the kernel's line
discipline code.  This is known to not work properly for UTF-8 in earlier
versions of Linux.  Recent versions include a fix for UTF-8 specifically. 
Making CVS use IUTF8 when appropriate, if defined.  This may take a while to
show up, however, because the kernel headers most people have don't exactly
track the installed kernel version.
Comment 2 Egmont Koblinger 2004-11-13 18:39:12 UTC 
It's not yet fixed properly, but since I have no permission to reopen other
people's bug, continuing it as bug #158200.