Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

From: Jan C. Nordholz (jckn_at_gmx.net)
Date: 08/30/05

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    Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:25:09 +0200
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    On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:13:13PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
    > Using Debian Sid, I have apt-listchanges package installed which
    > displays the changelog before installing the packages. However, in this
    > changelog, The names are not displayed properly. For example the upgrade
    > xpad package shows
    >
    > xpad (2.9-2) unstable; urgency=low
    >
    > * Fix broken entries in changelog
    > * Bump standards version, no changes
    > * Fix clean target to clean po/
    >
    > -- S<C3><B8>ren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org> Sun, 28 Aug 2005
    > 10:30:11 +02
    > 00
    >
    > The author name is displayed as S<C3><B8>ren .....
    > How can I avoid this error?
    >
    Hi,

    debian package changelogs are encoded in Unicode, where every character
    with an ASCII value > 128 is represented as two bytes. To properly read
    such files, invoke a terminal emulator in Unicode mode - e.g. xterm has a
    wrapper script "uxterm" which does just that, provided you have configured
    at least one UTF locale ('locale -a' shows all configured locales, and
    'dpkg-reconfigure locales' will let you re-choose).

    HTH,

    Jan 

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Jan C. Nordholz
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