Bugzilla – Bug 1214136
perl 5.38.0 breaks rxvt-unicode's handling of UTF-8 characters
Last modified: 2024-04-29 14:52:27 UTC
On Perl 5.38.0, rxvt-unocde can't treat UTF-8 characters. 1. the settings for rxvt don't work correctly 2. UTF-8 characters in terminal are garbled and completely unreadable 3. only env LANG=C works correctly in the terminal
Provide steps to reproduce, commands, and corresponding observations vs. expectations.
> Provide steps to reproduce, commands, and corresponding observations vs. expectations. I can't understand what you mean. I mean, I just upgraded to perl 5.38.0 following with Tumbleweed' s guide and now it happens. Anyway, I have the following settings for rxvt-unicode. !!! URxvt settings ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- URxvt.depth: 30 URxvt.geometry: 80x20 URxvt.transparent: false URxvt.fading: 0 URxvt.loginShell: true URxvt.saveLines: 10000 URxvt.internalBorder: 3 URxvt.lineSpace: 0 !!!! Fonts URxvt.allow_bold: true URxvt.allow_bold: false URxvt*font: xft:Migu 2M:size=16:style:antialias=true Fix font space Fix font space ! Fix font space URxvt*letterSpace: -1 [...]] In perl 5.38.0, the width is greatly increased unless set as follows. URxvt*letterSpace: -20 Here, all UTF-8 characters in rxvt-unicode are garbled and unreadable, regardless of whether they are Japanese or English.
Hello, By disabling Perl extensions, main issue has disappeared； URxvt.perl-ext: URxvt.perl-ext-common: But I can't use the Perl extension, so I can't think this is the solution: .....
Confirming that disabling the perl extension fixes that issue. Issue which also prevent from entering any unicode characters (for example accents) in the shell.
Caused perl 5.38 does not handling empty locale names. It has been fixed upstream in rxvt-unicode with a trivial change: https://github.com/exg/rxvt-unicode/commit/16634bc8dd5fc4af62faf899687dfa8f27768d15 Would be great to have OBS version of rxvt-unicode patched with that change as it is unknown when a new upstream version will happen.
> Caused perl 5.38 does not handling empty locale names. It has been fixed upstream in rxvt-unicode with a trivial change: > https://github.com/exg/rxvt-unicode/commit/16634bc8dd5fc4af62faf899687dfa8f27768d15 Confirmed! Thanks a lot.
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (1214136) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1117664 Factory / rxvt-unicode
Thanks for the fix in the latest rxvt-unicode package!
openSUSE-RU-2024:0059-1: An update that has two recommended fixes can now be installed. Category: recommended (moderate) Bug References: 1214136,1217732 CVE References: JIRA References: Sources used: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (src): rxvt-unicode-9.31-bp155.3.6.1
Closing this as an update has been released.