[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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