Bug#461159: apt-cache truncated Descriptions upon non-ASCII
Package: apt
(Locale was C.) Maybe you are just looking at the seven bits, thinking
^C interrupt?:
$ apt-cache show sympa|perl -nwe 'print if /means/..eof'
SYMPA means 'SYst <---TRUNCATED
Tag: implemented-in::perl, mail::list, role::program, works-with::mail
$ grep-aptavail -P sympa|perl -nwe 'print if /means/..eof'|cat -v
SYMPA means 'SYstM-CM-(me de Multi-Postage Automatique' (French) or
'Automatic Mailing System' (English).
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It is written in Perl and uses some modules (mailtools, md5, msgcat, db).
Tag: implemented-in::perl, mail::list, role::program, works-with::mail
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