[lsb-discuss] [lsb-lynx] No umlaut (ü) printed with echo -e '\0374'
Stew Benedict
stewb at linux-foundation.org
Wed Aug 6 04:25:07 PDT 2008
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Hao Liu wrote:
> Hi, guys,
> I'm testing lsb-lynx recently, I followed the steps from
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/appbat/fvt-3.2.0/lsb-lynx_fvt.html
> In the 3rd step of Section "Install & Setup", it says with character
> set ISO8859-1, I can print a umlaut (ü) with echo -e '\0374',
> I tried on my machine, there's no output.
>
> here's what I did:
> 1. [hliu at dhcp-65-102 devel]$ locale charmap
> ISO-8859-1
> 2. [hliu at dhcp-65-102 devel]$ echo -e '\0374'
>
> There's no output. Anybody ran into this problem before? Any clue?
>
> PS: my lynx test failed, see the attached snapshot.Failed on the 3rd FVT
>
This is a known issue with lsb-lynx not being compiled against ncursesw
(not part of LSB yet).
If you look at
http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049
There are a couple of workarounds to turn off utf8 and setup a font that
will let you run the FVT. As noted in the last comment, and reaffirmed by
your being stuck, the FVT stills needs some better wording to help the
user accomplish the setup. I'll be happy to apply suggested improvements
to the FVT to make things clearer.
--
Stew Benedict
The Linux Foundation
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