Bug#225602: apt: apt-get: encoding problems (when displaying strings)?

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 12:19:15AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.17
> Severity: normal
> 
> : tfheen@yiwaz ~ > apt-get update
> E: Kunne ikke ???pne l???sfil /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Ikke tilgang)
> E: Ute av stand til ??? l???se listemappen
> : tfheen@yiwaz ~ > locale   
> LANG=no_NO
> LC_CTYPE="no_NO"
> LC_NUMERIC="no_NO"
> LC_TIME="no_NO"
> LC_COLLATE="no_NO"
> LC_MONETARY="no_NO"
> LC_MESSAGES="no_NO"
> LC_PAPER="no_NO"
> LC_NAME="no_NO"
> LC_ADDRESS="no_NO"
> LC_TELEPHONE="no_NO"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="no_NO"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="no_NO"
> LC_ALL=
> : tfheen@yiwaz ~ > 
> 
> So, apt does something weird with the strings it outputs -- the
> abovementioned message should have read
> 
> E: Kunne ikke ?pne l?sfil /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Ikke tilgang)
> E: Ute av stand til ? l?se listemappen

I can't see the problem here.  As far as I can tell from looking at the .po
file, the message you are getting seems to match what is in the file.

msgid "Could not open lock file %s"
msgstr "Kunne ikke �pne l�sfil %s"

-- 
 - mdz