Bug#479062: fortune-mod: cannot select english fortunes having the non-English locale
Hello,
Thank you for caring.
2013-06-25 16:53, Andrea Colangelo:
> Since several years and releases passed since this bug was reported, mind
> checking if you still have this issue in the latest version?
Perhaps my language wasn't explicit enough back then. Here are steps to
reproduce:
0) sudo <packagemanager> install fortunes fortunes-de
1)
--------------------8<-------------------
$ export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
$ fortune
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
-- Socrates
$ fortune de
Alles, was man in Wissenschaften fordert, ist so ungeheuer,
dass man recht gut begreift, dass gar nichts geleistet wird.
-- Goethe, Maximen und Reflektionen, Nr. 1102
$ fortune en
No fortunes found
------------------->8--------------------
2)
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$ export LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8
$ fortune
Aham, das
(Rhetorisch:) Eine halblaute, beiläufige Bemerkung, die die Antwort:
"Ach!? Ist ja hochinteressant" provoziert.
-- Douglas Adams, John Lloyd, Sven Böttcher ("Der tiefere Sinn des Labenz")
$ fortune de
Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, hat einen Hang zum Großgeld.
$ fortune en
No fortunes found
------------------->8--------------------
The bug (wish?) is: in the case 2) there is no visible way to select an English
fortune having German locale.
--
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer
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