Re: locale problem with coreutils
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> [2002-09-23 19:03:50 -0500]:
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:43:09AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> > > A short look at the /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo
> > > file gives me the impression that the german locales files are broken
> > > for coreutils - some characters are UTF-8, some are latin-1.
> >
> > Probably an artifact of the merging done upstream to create the
> > coreutils po files -- given that the first merge attempt resulted in
> > fuzzy translations where they should not have been, it doesn't surprise
> > me that no encoding verification was done, either.
>
> That certainly seems like a plausible possibility. Jim is very
> responsive to those types of bugs and patches. File a bug at
> bug-coreutils@gnu.org with the information you have.
I would better wait for coreutils-4.5.2 before that.
It is almost sure that the translators are already working on it.
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