Public bug reported:
In Ubuntu 20.04, I discovered that the gdb 9 TUI source code window
doesn't display properly the UTF-8 characters (Chinese, Cyrillic, etc.)
but displays correctly only the ASCII ones. For example, the following
source code
printf("Здравей, свят!\n");
appears in the source co
To add some later findings, it turned out that:
(1) The bug was reintroduced in version 8.3;
(2) It affects only some CPU architectures.
I tested version "Debian 8.3.1-1" on two 64-bit machines with the same version
of Debian (Sid), one with PowerPC, and the other with SPARC. The bug shows up
onl
Thank you very much for fixing it! Unfortunately, it's back in version
9.0.90.20200105-0ubuntu1 (tested on AMD64, Ubuntu 20.04). I tried to
downgrade to 8.3-0ubuntu1 and then even to 8.2.91.20190405-0ubuntu3. In
both cases the bug was there. It wasn't there in 8.1-0ubuntu3.2 (Ubuntu
18.04 LTS).
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I managed to build from source code a gdb which correctly shows Cyrillic
characters (and probably all other UTF-8 encoded characters which the
console font supports) in the source code window. But in order to write
an acceptable gdb patch, I would need to study the configuration
scripts, which isn'
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