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bug #65898: Odd quotes in help: neither console nor gui display them correctly under Windows

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Wed 19 Jun 2024 09:07:42 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Other
Status:  Invalid / Not an Octave Bug Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Elmar Plischke Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  * Closed Release:  * 9.2.0
Operating System:  * Microsoft Windows Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  None
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Tue 30 Jul 2024 03:05:32 PM UTC, comment #4: 

yes, closing as Not an Octave Bug.  I don't think we have any plans to try to make the gui compatible with legacy console settings.

 Nicholas Jankowski <nrjank>
Group Member
Sun 28 Jul 2024 10:33:53 PM UTC, comment #3: 

So, can this report be closed as it is not an Octave bug but a terminal issue with Windows?

 Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Thu 25 Jul 2024 07:19:39 AM UTC, comment #2: 

You observation seems to be correct: it's the legacy console setting.

Details:
Windows 11 Home 23H2, 64bit
GNU Octave 9.2.0 installed from octave-9.2.0-w64-installer.exe

With
StandardTerminalApp: ConsoleHost
Legacy: off

Quotes in the help text are rendered ok (without --disable-encoding for makeinfo),
however (reverse-i-search) [ctrl-r] outputs the escape sequence esc[7m (which is not interpreted as inverse video) and does not pretty-print

With
StandardTerminalApp: ConsoleHost
Legacy: on

Quotes are three "unknown sign" blobs
Reverse search garbles the output

With
StandardTerminalApp: TerminalApp
Legacy: on

I get a warning from the GUI version, but none from the CLI version. Quotes in help texts and reverse search strings are broken.


 



Anonymous
Wed 19 Jun 2024 10:46:35 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Which version of windows and by what method did you install it?

Are you possibly using the new windows terminal? Here’s how to check and switch terminal if that’s the case. https://octave.discourse.group/t/workaround-for-weird-behavior-of-command-window-widget-in-windows/4981

Are you possibly using the “legacy console” app? I got artifacts that sound like what you’re describing with that option enabled:   https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/94146-enable-disable-legacy-console-mode-all-consoles-windows-10-a.html

 Nicholas Jankowski <nrjank>
Group Member
Wed 19 Jun 2024 09:07:42 PM UTC, original submission:  

Dear all,

the help system seems to render quotes as some unicode symbols which are neither rendered correctly by the GUI nor the console under Windows. This is a bit annoying.

I added '--disable-encoding' to the options passed to makeinfo in
m/help/__makeinfo__.m

Then quotes seem to be plain ascii.

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