Yes, I'll run more tests. I'll get this one done today. On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:40:21 +0200 Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote: khali> khali> > Ok here are the two results snipped for ITE detection.... khali> khali> I guess there were similar errors (Malformed UTF-8 character) for some khali> other chipsets? khali> khali> Anyway, I'm stumped. I was expecting your system to return UTF-8 chars khali> from /dev/ports, and it doesn't seem so (or why would perl say they are khali> malformed?) And if it returns regular chars, why are the values khali> different from the ones obtained with a non-UTF-8 locale? I just don't khali> understand. khali> khali> So from here I only see two possibilities: khali> khali> 1* Opening /dev/ports in binary mode solves the problem (which I doubt, khali> since traditionally, Unix systems don't differenciate text and binary khali> modes). Please grab the modified script that does this and tell me if it khali> works: khali> http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/sensors-detect-k3 khali> khali> 2* I just don't know what we can do. In this case, the only thing I can khali> propose is checking for the LANG environment variable, and generate a khali> warning at start is if matches *.UTF8, stating that the user should khali> better restart the script with a non-UTF-8 locale. We can even change khali> the LANG environment variable in the script, but I don't know if that khali> would work (I don't know if Perl "reads" it at the beginning, once for khali> all, or each time its value matters). Jim, would you accept doing some khali> more tests for us? khali> khali> Thanks. khali> khali> -- khali> Jean Delvare khali> http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/ khali> -- Jim Morris morris at wolfman.com
