bugDDD - Bugs: bug #64394, Wrong encoding for version output

 
 

bug #64394: Wrong encoding for version output

Submitter:  Ryan Carsten Schmidt <ryandesign>
Submitted:  Sat 08 Jul 2023 04:23:01 AM UTC
Votes: 10
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  eickeler
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
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Fri 15 Mar 2024 07:36:44 PM UTC, comment #1: 

fixed in upcoming release 3.4.1

 Stefan Eickeler <eickeler>
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Sat 08 Jul 2023 04:23:01 AM UTC, original submission:  

My macOS terminal's encoding is of course UTF-8:

% echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8


But when I ask ddd for its version, it prints information in ISO-8859:

% ddd --version
GNU DDD 3.4.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin21.6.0)
Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany.
Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Universit?t Passau, Germany.
Copyright (C) 2001 Universit?t des Saarlandes, Germany.
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


% ddd --version | file -
/dev/stdin: ISO-8859 text


% ddd --version | iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8
GNU DDD 3.4.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin21.6.0)
Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.
Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Universität Passau, Germany.
Copyright (C) 2001 Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


 Ryan Carsten Schmidt <ryandesign>

 

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