Problems with german characters

[Michael Lesniak]

Hello,

even though I've read the thread in the mailing list, that everything *should* work fine, it doesn't :). I'm using Ubuntu Dapper 6.06.1, libreadline-java  0.8.

Everytime I use a german umlaut, e.g. in the word fünf, the result returned is fünf.

Any ideas on possible misconfigurations on my side?

Thanks
  Michael

[deepcored]

Hi,

I've had similar issues with all unicode characters. Digging up the source code I came across an internal UTF-UCS converter. Apparently this conversion must be done if you are running your app on windows. And this should not be done on a linux machine.  I've made a very simple patch which skips charset conversion:

diff -Naur ./src/native/org_gnu_readline_Readline.c ../../libreadline-java-0.8.0/src/native/org_gnu_readline_Readline.c
--- ./src/native/org_gnu_readline_Readline.c    2003-01-07 20:14:35.000000000 +1000
+++ ../../libreadline-java-0.8.0/src/native/org_gnu_readline_Readline.c 2010-07-28 16:20:37.433083185 +1000
@@ -576,6 +576,8 @@
       return NULL;
   }

+  strcpy(buffer, utf8); return buffer;
+
   for (i=0,pin=utf8,pout=buffer; i<bufLength && *pin; i++,pin++,pout++) {
     current = *pin;
     if (current >= 0xE0) {                   /* we support only two-byte utf8 */
@@ -613,6 +615,8 @@
       return NULL;
   }

+  strcpy(buffer, ucs); return buffer;
+
   for (i=0,pin=ucs,pout=buffer; i<bufLength && *pin; i++,pin++,pout++) {
     current = *pin;
     if (current < 0x80)                      /* one-byte utf8                 */

Hope that helps,
Evgeny.