[lsb-discuss] [lsb-lynx] No umlaut (ü) printed with echo -e '\0374'
Hao Liu
hliu at redhat.com
Wed Aug 6 19:01:51 PDT 2008
Stew Benedict wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Hi, Stew
Thank you for your reply, the wrapper works, thank you.
All the best,
Hao Liu
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