[miles@lsi.nec.co.jp: Bug#242676: aptitude doesn't work well with LANG=ja_JP.utf-8]

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

  I don't really understand what to do about this bug.  Could
anyone give me some suggestions?  (pleace Cc me, I'm not on this list)
In particular -- do I need to convert the pofile to utf8, and how would
I go about doing that?

    Thanks,
  Daniel

----- Forwarded message from Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> -----

From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Subject: Bug#242676: aptitude doesn't work well with LANG=ja_JP.utf-8
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:37:57 +0900
X-Mailer: reportbug 2.56

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.14.1-2
Severity: normal


In my UTF-8 gnome-terminal, LANG=ja_JP.utf-8 is enough to make most apps
display japanese messages correctly, but aptitude's output is largely
gibberish.  It seems to be using a Japanese translation, but the
character encoding is wrong (it appears to be EUC-JP).

I notice that the .mo file for aptitude is encoded using EUC-JP; should
the message-catalog library stuff do the conversion to UTF-8, or would
aptitude need to come with both?

Thanks,

-Miles


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3 0.5.24       Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.4-0pre4  GCC support library
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-3        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-1.2-5c102         1.2.5-1      Type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.3-6    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- no debconf information


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