#1076678 apt: as of the recent apt redo, progress bars on screen-on-urxvt in en_US.UTF-8 uses wrong characters

Package:
apt
Source:
apt
Description:
commandline package manager
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Date:
2024-07-22 20:42:06 UTC
Severity:
normal
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#1076678#5
Date:
2024-07-21 23:02:18 UTC
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This started when the new-style apt got installed.

screen is running on another sid with its child ttys each ssh’ed
into a remote deb.

it may occurr under any UTF-8 locale, but I only ever use en_US.UTF-8
and more recently C.UTF-8, but I’ve not switched everything over yet.

urxvt itself is running on a gentoo box, if relevant.
(Also using en_US.UTF-8.)

(Also, if relevant, all of the remotes are xen or kvm.)
#1076678#10
Date:
2024-07-22 17:20:33 UTC
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Am Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 11:02:18PM GMT, schrieb cloos@jhcloos.com:
perhaps with a copy&paste or a screenshot.


If APT runs with an UTF-8 codeset it now uses utf8 block characters,
if it isn't it falls back to the "old" style of using #.

The code is here:
https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/main/apt-pkg/install-progress.cc?ref_type=heads#L346-367
The block characters are btw:
 ▏ ▎ ▍ ▌ ▋ ▊ ▉ █
as in: those chars including & following "U+2588 FULL BLOCK"

So, honestly, I don't see much opportunity for apt to be wrong here
and would guess its either your transit layers messing up or your
chosen font not supporting these characters; but I am happy to be
proven wrong given utf8 isn't my expertise.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies
#1076678#15
Date:
2024-07-22 20:32:51 UTC
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they do not remain to copy and paste, but the progress is using an
accented miniscule a.

it *may* have been U+E2 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX.

the boxes for “overlays” also fail to use the actual block chars.
and instead get what look like chars from U+80 TO U+FF.

screen is explicitly run with -U and all of the locales are .UTF-8 .

and everything else works correctly.