[Bug 1095949] Re: Problem with special characters

[Steve Langasek]

Upstart itself is running in the C locale, which means that any
processes started from it are also run in the C locale - so strings are
interpreted as ascii, not as UTF-8.  exporting LANG before calling x
-terminal-emulator should be enough to fix this.  I don't think there's
any bug in upstart here.

** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Problem with special characters

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 dev with upstart 1.6.1-1ubuntu1. It seems that
  Upstart have problems on my system if a script contains a special
  character like "ö". Here is an example script:

  env DISPLAY=:0

  script
  	x-terminal-emulator -e "$(echo 'sh -c "echo ö; sleep 5"')"
  end script

  
  I have tested this with lxterminal and xterm but lxterminal is showing me �� and xterm ö .Calling this command from bash works fine (so it seems not to be a bug in lxterminal or xterm). If a ö is read as ISO-8859-1 and printed in UTF-8 it contains the same characters which xterm is showing me. So I'm assuming Upstart has maybe read this file as ISO-8859-1.

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