Re: Problem with dpkg-query -l and UTF-8 in descriptions
On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 23:37:35 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> I just saw this on my system where the package cpputest is installed:
>
> $ LANG=C dpkg -l >/dev/null
> dpkg-query: error: cannot convert multibyte sequence '— main package
[…]
> itself.' to a wide character
> $ echo $?
> 2
>
> With a proper UTF-8 locale, I get no error. I believe this error to be
> new (I'm running what's in git's master branch).
I've got a workaround locally for now possibly targetted at 1.17.2,
which I'll be replacing with more thorough utf-8 support, either for
1.17.2 or 1.17.3.
Guillem
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