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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

mlterm

According to [http://bugs.debian.org/352662 #352662] does not display Japanese correctly

Serious problems

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

Additional information

a2ps

[http://bugs.debian.org/180236 #180236]

aterm

[http://bugs.debian.org/216302 #216302]

dselect

[http://bugs.debian.org/237675 #237675]

elvis

eterm

[http://bugs.debian.org/184801 #184801]

gnobog

hnb

[http://bugs.debian.org/277994 #277994]

ispell

mcabber

mrxvt

multi-aterm

nvi

pinfo

[http://bugs.debian.org/262128 #262128]

rxvt, rxvt-beta

tgif

[http://bugs.debian.org/326245 #326245]

vile

vim-tiny

this is a build decision, regular vim has the support compiled in

xmessage, xmore

zile

upstream: "Unicode support is planned"

xclip

[http://bugs.debian.org/380392 #380392]

Minor problems

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

Additional information

aptitude

has the same minor problem

links

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

elinks

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

man

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

mutt

[http://bugs.debian.org/328921 #328921]

cron

[http://bugs.debian.org/309150 #309150]: sends mail with broken Content-Type.

kgpg

[http://bugs.debian.org/385778 #385778]: display issues with UTF-8 encoded names

zsh

entering/printing in UTF-8 works, advanced usage like ${#variable} counts bytes, not characters; zsh-beta is much better

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)

most

since 4.10.2-2