Re: Bug#404166: portmap: Inconsistent encoding of the Spanish debconf translation
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 02:49:24PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Huh, I'm trying to test this, and I'm getting rather strange behavior.
> > Is dpkg-reconfigure supposed to invoke debconf? I'm starting it under
> > luit in ISO-8859-1 (with LANG set to es_CL, a locale which I explicitely
> > built), and while it does display some of the things in spanish (strings
> > such as "Cancel", "Ok", and the like), most of the text is still
> > displayed in english.
>
> Yes, it's supposed to use the package script's config which, in turn, uses
> debconf. The 'Cancel' / 'Ok' are not part of the package's templates. They
> are part of i18n in Debconf.
Ok, I was just pointing it out because it serves as confirmation that
the environment was in fact configured as spanish, but debconf failed to
use the translations.
> > If I run the same thing under a normal xterm (which I have configured to
> > use UTF-8), the text is displayed in spanish.
>
> I guess that the package you are dpkg-reconfiguring has Description_es-UTF-8
> in its template. Check out the contents of /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat
Well, I can see foo-es.utf-8 entries there. However, all entries in all
languages for all packages in that file are in UTF-8, so I'd assume that
some of them have been recoded from their original encodings somewhere,
because I'm sure I've seen some in iso-8859-1/15 posted on this list.
Maybe Debconf expects to be able to recode them back on display and the
fact that it failed is merely a bug, not a missing feature.
On your file, do all entries show up as iso-8859-15?
> > I guess this means that Debconf is not really able to do charset
> > conversion of the translations, an issue which AFAICS forces all
> > language teams to switch to a "preferred" encoding.
>
> Or to file a bug against Debconf asking it to do exactly that (encode from
> UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 (or -15) for some languages (i.e. those that can be
> converted directly, which includes most european languages).
>
> Otherwise, you will be always penalising some users (my default locale is
> currently *not* UTF-8 and neither it will be for those that have not
> installed sarge but a previous release and upgraded from there).
>
> Who files the (wishlist) bug? :-)
Please go ahead, you're the one most familiar with Debian's ways.
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