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bin/42745: fortune doesn't handle extended characters very well
>Number: 42745
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: fortune doesn't handle extended characters very well
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 04 21:15:01 +0000 2010
>Originator: Tim Larson
>Release: 5.0.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD roy.christtrek.org 5.0.1 NetBSD 5.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 30 01:39:11
UTC 2009
builds%b8.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/i386/200907292356Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
i386
>Description:
Non-ASCII characters in fortune files are not handled very well when the
terminal doesn't support them.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Use terminfo to determine support for extended chars, and use a Lynx-like
mapping to 7-bit ASCII when not supported.
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