Bug#356997: apt: internationalization of yes/no answers does not accept displayed answers

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:37:31AM +0100, Tim Krah wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.43.3
> Severity: important
> Tags: l10n
> 
> In the german locale (de_DE), apt asks:
> 
> Möchten Sie fortfahren [J/n]?
> (Do you want to continue [Y/n]?)
> 
> and eventually
> 
> Diese Pakete ohne Überprüfung installieren [j/N]?
> (Install these packages without verification [y/N]?)
> 
> 
> If you answer 'j' apt acts as if you'd answer 'n'!
> Only if you answer 'y' apt continues as expected.
[...]
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-cko1-raidserver
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

It looks like your locale settings are
   LANG=en_US
   LANGUAGE=de_DE
In this case, this bugreport is a duplicate of http://bugs.debian.org/345639
Can you please send the output of the 'locale' command?

Denis