[Bins] Re: outputs Copyright information as Latin-1 even on UTF-8 terminals

[Jérôme Sautret]

2005/11/4, Martin Michlmayr <tbm at cyrius.com>:
> tags 308111 + patch
> thanks
>
> * Martin Michlmayr <tbm at cyrius.com> [2005-05-08 00:00]:
> > When bins prints its copyright message, the (C) sign ((c)) cannot be
> > read and the name "Jérôme Sautret" is garbled too.  This is because
> > the string is printed in Latin-1 even though I'm using a UTF-8 locale.
>
> Don Armstrong submitted the following patch for this problem.  It
> works for me.

The "use open ':locale';" breaks lots of stuffs in HTML generation. I
guess the open pragma conflicts with the explicit encoding handling
done with Iconv. I've corrected the copyright problem with Iconv and
I've tested it succefully with fr_FR at euro and fr_FR.UTF-8 so it should
be OK now.