Bug#487230: Processed: kimiwitu
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:01:06AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> was heard to say:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:14:30PM -0700, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> was heard to say:
> > While it was a good guess, I don't think this is an aptitude bug.
>
> I've tracked down the problem. apt recodes Descriptions to the local
> codeset when client code invokes LongDesc(). However, it just tries to
> use one iconv() call to perform the conversion. This is a problem if
> there are characters in the string that can't be translated.
>
> I suggest something like the attached patch, which imports the
btw, since I forgot to mention this explicitly -- if this looks ok
with Michael and Otavio I'm happy to commit it.
Daniel
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