http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 User ke@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c1 Karl Eichwalder changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jkupec@novell.com AssignedTo|ke@novell.com |coolo@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Karl Eichwalder 2009-06-29 23:29:20 MDT --- Wondering why zypper is not able to transliterate basic UTF-8 letters on the fly, though. gettext knows about this and iconv/libiconv, too (IIRC, it is the //translit switch). Lately, YaST was also affected and probably still is... This "bug" occurs again and again. The guys who packages the license file probably must check the file for "bad" content and convert to ASCII. Which is not reliable as long as we do not use a file format with embedded encoding information (say, XML or .po). BTW, the documentation department is not involve in the process "all around the license file". It is written by legal (I guess), then approved by PM and the project manager and then packaged by a packager resp. by the autobuild team, IIRC. Assigning to coolo to take a decision. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 User coolo@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c3 Stephan Kulow changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Documentation |libzypp AssignedTo|coolo@novell.com |zypp-maintainers@forge.prov | |o.novell.com QAContact|ke@novell.com |qa@suse.de --- Comment #3 from Stephan Kulow 2009-07-13 06:13:23 MDT --- I think zypper has to learn to transliterate - opensuse licenses are not the only ones to be displayed -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 User jkupec@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c5 Ján Kupec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low Status|NEW |ASSIGNED AssignedTo|zypp-maintainers@forge.prov |jkupec@novell.com |o.novell.com | --- Comment #5 from Ján Kupec 2009-07-13 08:34:30 MDT --- Thanx. This might also be a dupe of 309293. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 User gp@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c7 --- Comment #7 from Gerald Pfeifer 2009-07-13 08:40:18 MDT --- Yes, and no. One approach to this concrete item would be adjusting the openSUSE license agreement. That should be easy, and reduce time pressure to address the full blown problem a bit (though one could also argue this as a drawback of that approach -- 309293 was opened 2007-09-10). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c10 Karl Eichwalder changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|libzypp |libzypp Version|Factory |Final Product|openSUSE 11.2 |openSUSE 13.1 --- Comment #10 from Karl Eichwalder 2013-11-12 11:46:24 CET --- it is still an open issue on 13.1. yast (ncurses ui) displays it wrongly. adjusting version info. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c11 --- Comment #11 from Gabriele Mohr 2013-11-28 12:47:08 UTC --- On text mode console and during installtion only chars can be displayed which are available in font set (check with 'showconsolefont'). Copyright sign is available here but only one kind of "" and the license file contains 2 different types of "". But the problem is not only with ncurses UI. Also 'zypper' started in xterm shows the license and there the problem is also not having all chars available, see screenshot, here the Copyright is missing. I recommend to use only chars which are available in font on console and X terminal. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c13 Gabriele Mohr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |ke@suse.com --- Comment #13 from Gabriele Mohr 2013-11-28 12:49:25 UTC --- Karl, what's your opinion. Does this make sense? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c15 Karl Eichwalder changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED InfoProvider|ke@suse.com | --- Comment #15 from Karl Eichwalder 2013-12-04 10:16:42 CET --- (In reply to comment #14)

As long as we live with limited fonts, zypper and yast cannot rely on UTF-8. They should play safe and use the suggested iconv commands, or eqivalents.

Yes, I think Jan also agreed with this (see comment 4 and comment 5). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c17 --- Comment #17 from Gabriele Mohr 2013-12-05 08:39:50 UTC --- (In reply to comment #16)

YaST and zypper rely on UTF-8 since 2003. All code has to be UTF-8 encoded. Of course 'all text'... Problem here is not about UTF-8 but about chars not available in font set. As written in comment #11, the license contains 2 different types of "", one type isn't available. And the Copyright is not displayed correctly in zypper (screenshot comment #12). Solution for both cannot be done in Ncurses UI.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c19 --- Comment #19 from Lukas Ocilka 2013-12-05 08:59:49 UTC --- See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309293#c10 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

From man bind_textdomain_codeset: By default, the gettext family of functions returns translated messages in the locale's character encoding, which can be retrieved as nl_lang- info(CODESET). The need for calling bind_textdomain_codeset arises for

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c21 --- Comment #21 from Gabriele Mohr 2013-12-05 10:58:13 UTC --- The description in link above is misleading. The "desired output character set" is not related to the font but to the character encoding, e.g. UTF-8, UTF-16 or ASCII. The function "bind_textdomain_codeset (const char * domainname, const char * codeset)" with 'codeset' set to "utf8" is called in libyui-ncurses (and same way in libyui-qt). pro- grams which store strings in a locale independent way (e.g. UTF-8) and want to avoid an extra character set conversion on the returned translated messages. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c23 Gabriele Mohr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |CLOSED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #23 from Gabriele Mohr 2013-12-05 13:53:48 UTC --- I don't see a way for solution on YaST side. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c25 --- Comment #25 from Juergen Weigert 2014-02-17 10:26:02 UTC --- A more recent iconv (from glibc-2.17-4.7.1) is worse. I'd suggest not to use the code from comment #4 blindly: cd /etc/YaST2/licenses/base LANG=de_DE iconv -f UTF-8 -t ascii//translit < license.de.txt > /tmp/l.detxt diff -u license.de.txt /tmp/l.de.txt .. jeweiligen Komponente. Mit Ausnahme bestimmter Dateien, die die -nachstehend erläuterte Marke „openSUSE“ enthalten, ermöglichen es +nachstehend erlauterte Marke ,,openSUSE" enthalten, ermoglichen es Ihnen die Lizenzbedingungen zu den Komponenten, die jeweilige .. ae and oe umlaut transliteration fails. Converting opening quotes into two chars and closing quotes into one char is bad. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c27 --- Comment #27 from Juergen Weigert 2014-02-18 11:19:14 UTC --- Gabi, do we have a 'definition' of which characters are safe/unsafe? Currently I am aware of - odd quotation marks, - bullets and hyphens. rpm -qf /etc/YaST2/licenses/base/license.txt file /etc/YaST2/licenses/base/license.txt is not owned by any package Where should we submit fixed license texts? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c29 Gabriele Mohr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED InfoProvider|gs@suse.com | --- Comment #29 from Gabriele Mohr 2014-02-27 15:22:02 UTC --- (In reply to comment #27)

Gabi, do we have a 'definition' of which characters are safe/unsafe?

Currently I am aware of - odd quotation marks, - bullets and hyphens.

I don't have a definition. It seems Karl found a solution (bnc #849449, comment #8).

rpm -qf /etc/YaST2/licenses/base/license.txt file /etc/YaST2/licenses/base/license.txt is not owned by any package

Where should we submit fixed license texts?

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