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0002578NetSurfAmiga-specificpublic2024-02-25 21:43
ReporterChris Young 
Assigned ToChris Young 
SeverityminorReproducibilityalways 
StatusclosedResolutionfixed 
PlatformAmigaOSAmigaOSOS Version4.1
Product Version3.8 
Target Version3.11Fixed in Version3.11 
Summary0002578: Unable to type using Amiga-1251 charset
DescriptionWhen Locale is set to the Amiga-1251 character set, it is impossible to type anything into NetSurf!
Steps To ReproduceSet Locale to Russian, Amiga-1251, open NetSurf and type something in the web page.
Additional InformationThis is caused by libiconv not being aware of this old Amiga-specific character set.
TagsNo tags attached.
Fixed in CI build #5170
Reported in CI build #4249
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Chris Young

~0001689

Chris Young (developer)

A workaround is to use the ISO-8859-5 character set for the system rather than the old Amiga-1251. (this is not an option on OS3)

The solution will be to rewrite utf8_from/to_local to use codesets.library instead, which is aware of these old weird character sets.
Chris Young

~0001692

Chris Young (developer)

A second workaround is to set local_charset:Windows-1251 in choices. This overrides what NetSurf thinks the system charset is, there are minimal differences between Amiga-1251 and Windows-1251 and iconv knows of the latter.
Vincent Sanders

~0001982

Vincent Sanders (administrator)

I removed this as targeted for 3.9 as that release is now and this bug remains unfixed
Chris Young

~0002203

Chris Young (developer)

Modified charset conversion code to use codesets.library and fall back to iconv if not available.
OS3 now gets Codesets' auto detection of the local charset (there is no way of overriding this currently). OS4 uses the codeset number from the current locale (Codesets was not determining this correctly so it is set manually).
Have tested in Russian Amiga-1251 and both input and output is working correctly.
Vincent Sanders

~0002439

Vincent Sanders (administrator)

Issue resolved in 3.11 release
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-Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2017-11-23 22:06 Chris Young New Issue
2017-11-23 22:06 Chris Young Status new => assigned
2017-11-23 22:06 Chris Young Assigned To => Chris Young
2017-11-23 22:09 Chris Young Status assigned => confirmed
2017-11-23 22:09 Chris Young Note Added: 0001689
2017-12-09 18:27 Chris Young Note Added: 0001692
2018-08-28 10:40 Vincent Sanders Target Version 3.8 => 3.9
2019-07-01 12:01 Vincent Sanders Target Version 3.9 =>
2019-07-01 12:01 Vincent Sanders Note Added: 0001982
2020-05-26 14:17 Chris Young Status confirmed => resolved
2020-05-26 14:17 Chris Young Resolution open => fixed
2020-05-26 14:17 Chris Young Fixed in Version => 3.11
2020-05-26 14:17 Chris Young Fixed in CI build # => 5170
2020-05-26 14:17 Chris Young Note Added: 0002203
2020-05-27 08:02 Vincent Sanders Status resolved => closed
2020-05-27 08:25 Vincent Sanders Status closed => resolved
2020-05-27 08:25 Vincent Sanders Target Version => 3.11
2024-02-25 21:43 Vincent Sanders Status resolved => closed
2024-02-25 21:43 Vincent Sanders Note Added: 0002439
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