unable to re-encode some CJK punctuation from utf8 to gbk

[poppyer]

Binary package hint: screen

To reproduce this bug:

1) set the locale to utf8 (such as LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.utf8)
2) within GNU screen shell, cat the attached cjk-punc-utf8.txt. you should see that it show CJK punctuations correctly in screen.
(http://poppyer.110mb.com/cjk-punc-utf8.txt)
3) use C-a :copy to select the result
4) use C-a :writebuf -e gbk cjk-punc-gbk.txt to re-encode it as gbk.
5) open cjk-punc-gbk.txt (using gedit --encoding=gbk or firefox or even hexdump -C), you can see that although the chinese characters are encoded corrently, the quotes punctuations are not (and becomes "?"0x3f)

I have check /usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/19, and the translation table seems correct. So maybe there is something wrong in the code encodings.c?

[Micah Cowan (micahcowan)]

Reported upstream at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?20277

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[poppyer (gaofeng)]

Yes, it is still here. and i think Cowan is right, it is a upstream bug.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

I can reproduce this bug as well. Marking Confirmed and setting to Low importance - not a core application. I see this has already been reported upstream, but as yet, has not been dealt with, perhaps it needs a bump? Thank you.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

I have just checked this in Maverick and the bug is the same. The gnu bugtracker seems to be down, but I have linked it in anyway. Set Triaged, Low.