retitle 363366 whois should transcode the server output tag 363366 help upstream thanks
On Apr 18, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gnome-nettool is a GNOME program which offers to call whois from a GUI > to present WHOIS queries. However, it is hard for the program to > detect when whois failed processing a query because of invalid > parameters as the exit code is often zero. One example is: > > whois 'google.de#' && echo true > No whois server is known for this kind of object. > true It's debateable that this should be considered an error condition. > but perhaps you can suggest another way to distinguish between the > program's output and WHOIS data. One of the problems in gnome-nettool > is that the program has to convert the output of the command to UTF-8 > to display it in a Gtk interface, and since the data comes both from > the whois program itself, or from WHOIS servers, data can be mixed in > various encodings (such as UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 respectively). The correct solution is to make whois transcode the server output from the native charset (which may be UTF-8, Latin-1 or something else: you need to add to data.h a table with (server,encoding) tuples) to $LC_CTYPE. I was thinking about using an iprintf() wrapper which if needed recodes the string to be printed, but I did not have time to implement it yet. Any help would be appreciated. -- ciao, Marco
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