[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48485] doc browser: wrong special characters in help texts (Windows)

[Hartmut]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48485>

                 Summary: doc browser: wrong special characters in help texts
(Windows)
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: hardy
            Submitted on: Tue 12 Jul 2016 06:28:08 PM GMT
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Regression
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.3
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

This happens with the GUI doc browser in the current Octave 4.0.3 release,
installed under Windows 7 via the official installer.

Here is a short script to show the behavior:


help print % works fine

doc print  % produces wrong characters


The help commmand produces the proper help text for the print command. All
special characters look fine to me.

But the doc command, that shows the help string in the GUI doc browser,
produces a help text that has many funny looking special characters in it. I
will attach a screenshot of "doc print" to show this.

The Window 7 PC where this was observed, has a german locale. That might be of
relevance. (But the help command works fine...)

This is a regression, because with Octave 4.0.1, run on the very same Win7 PC,
this problem is not there.

Under Linux I could not observe this problem with an Octave 4.0.3 installation
under a german locale.



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Date: Tue 12 Jul 2016 06:28:08 PM GMT  Name: Screenshot_doc print.jpg  Size:
389kB   By: hardy

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=37827>

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