[Bug 1569964] Re: Malformed characters on the console with LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 are shown

[Benno Schulenberg]

Confirmed on an up-to-date Manjaro install, so it is not just an Ubuntu
thing.  And it's not just nano either, because when I do (in a Dutch
locale) for example 'stty cols' (without giving a number), I get an
error message that has those two block characters around cols.  (On a
console, that is.  On a terminal emulator it works fine.)

On a console, the accented letters of French, German, and Spanish seem
okay.  But when I specify Croat as the language...  Try running
'LANGUAGE=hr nano', and then type ^G.  You'll see twenty, thirty, forty
of these block characters.  Apparently the console font leaves something
to be desired.

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Title:
  Malformed characters on the console with LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 are shown

Status in nano package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 dev with nano 2.5.3-2 and on going to the
  console and setting LANG to de_DE.UTF-8 I'm noticing that changing an
  existing file with nano and aborting the changes with CTRL + X does
  show before and after the word "Nein" a black square instead of the
  characters „ and “ as they are shown on a terminal.

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