List of UTF-8 broken applications in Debian

Unconfirmed

Packages in this section are not yet confirmed to be the cause of utf-8 related problems

Additional information

Serious problems

Packages in this section are simply unusable in utf-8 environment when using characters outside the scope of ASCII

Additional information

a2ps

180236

aterm

216302

dselect

237675

elvis

eterm

184801

gnobog

hnb

277994

ispell

mrxvt

398070

multi-aterm

nvi

rxvt, rxvt-beta

tgif

326245

vile

xmessage, xmore

zile

upstream: "Unicode support is planned"

xclip

380392

sysvbanner

396404

Minor problems

Packages in this section have some quirks regarding utf-8, but their functionality is not affected

Additional information

links

basic rendering works, but moving around the page messes the display

elinks

basic rendering works, but moving around the page messes the display

lyx

291186

mailman

668304: translations and terminal output

man

info page uses U2018 et U2019 chars which aren't in many console fonts.

mutt

328921

cron

309150: sends mail with broken Content-Type.

kgpg

385778: display issues with UTF-8 encoded names

emacs21

emacs21 -nw needs tweaking, 419490

xscreensaver

problems displaying non ASCII characters from fortunes from non-English languages, upstream is not interested in fixing this 237296

Resolved

Packages in this section are hopefully cured of their utf-8 related problems

Additional information

aptitude

since 0.4.0 (resp. devel 0.3.x)

jed

since 0.99-17

mc

since 4.6.1-2 (patches still not integrated upstream)

mcabber

since 0.8.2-2

most

since 4.10.2-2

vim-tiny

since 1:7.0-122+1 (this was just a build decision)

zsh

since 4.3

mlterm

since 2.9.3 According to 352662 does not display Japanese correctly

pinfo

since 0.6.9 262128


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