Bugzilla – Bug 105480
broken german umlaut in yast window title
Last modified: 2005-08-19 09:45:06 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.
Created attachment 46475 [details] A screen shot with the broken window title
Oh no, not again.
What window manager is this?
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.
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.