Bug 105480

Summary:	broken german umlaut in yast window title
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Uwe Girlich <Uwe.Girlich>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SUSE Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	A screen shot with the broken window title

Description Uwe Girlich 2005-08-18 12:48:12 UTC

At first installation I selected KDE but wanted to fine tune the package list.
I added a single package (kdetoys3) and continued. I got a window about the
additional packages needed to resolve all dependencies with the window title
"Ge?nderte Packete". The "ae" Umlaut was changed into a "?". The text inside the
window itself contained several occurences of the "ae" umlaut without problems.

Comment 1 Uwe Girlich 2005-08-18 12:54:03 UTC

Created attachment 46475 [details]
A screen shot with the broken window title

Comment 2 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-19 08:46:21 UTC

Oh no, not again.

Comment 3 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-08-19 09:35:18 UTC

What window manager is this?

Comment 4 Uwe Girlich 2005-08-19 09:41:06 UTC

I have no idea. It is before the real installation, where I can fine-tune, which
packages shall be installed. I'm not even sure, if there is a real window manager
running at this early point.

Comment 5 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-08-19 09:45:06 UTC

Ah, OK, so it's still in the inst-sys. That means it's FVWM2, and that one is 
known not to be able to handle UTF-8. 
 
This problem has a long-standing history. The only way out is to avoid those 
special characters at all, but OTOH we very much prefer that "?" at this point 
(a rare occasion anyway) than using "ae" every time, even in the installed 
system where people use this a lot more often. 
 
Sorry, nothing we can do with reasonable effort.