Re: debconf template translation

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:51:52AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
[...]
> I try to use po-debconf instead of debconf-utils
> with one of my packages and it seemed not so hard
> and I guessed a correct templates was generated.
> 
> But when I tried dpkg-reconfigure under LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
> (which worked with old style templates) I saw simply English
> text.
> 
> Further, I tried with debconf but I failed to see Japanese
> text too.
> 
> Is there any special setting (e.x. LC_* etc.?) needed
> for po-debcont style templates to work?

This problem is described in po-debconf(7) in the CAVEATS section:
debconf-utils ignored all spaces whereas they are now significant.
So after running debconf-gettextize some strings may be marked
fuzzy and translators have to unfuzzy them.

Denis