Package: po-debconf
Version: 1.0.6
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-l10n-german@lists.debian.org
In my locale (see below) I get translated buttons (e.g., Yes -> Ja),
but the text itself always remains in english. The file itself can be
viewed perfectly fine in vim, less, cat, ..., so I really doubt that I
would need unicode. I tried setting LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_ALL to various
values (de, de_DE, ..) but could not get a single value to work. Since
there are no diagnostics available, I am a bit lost. I used strace,
but could not see a problem from this way.
All these tests were done on the linux console. After a suggestion I
tried an uxterm under X (without changing any environment variable)
and suddenly podebconf-display-po displays localized content (e.g. the
german strings).
You write in the man page:
If the PO file cannot be converted into your current
encoding, English strings are displayed instead of the
localized ones. You have then to switch to a UTF-8
environment to prevent encoding mismatch.
With "real" packages, the german strings (on the linux console) always
worked. So obviously it seems, as if podebconf-display-po *always*
requires an UTF-8 environment.
A minimum solution would be some diagnostic facility (e.g. a command
line switch) which informs the user that conversion failed *and* a
correction in the man page. The better fix would be of course, to do
the proper conversion (if any, the file I tested with was *not* in
UTF-8, so no conversion was actually required!).
I can provide an example po file on request (but tested with several).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.7-grsec-cz01
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages po-debconf depends on:
ii gettext 0.14.6-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages po-debconf recommends:
ii libcompress-zlib-perl 1.42-1 Perl module for creation and manip
pn libmail-sendmail-perl <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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