retitle 524406 apt: use //TRANSLIT when recoding Description reassign 524406 apt tag 524406 patch thanks On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:48:54PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Package: kbd > Version: 1.15-1 > > Hi, > > The description currently says: > Description: Linux console font and keytable utilities > This package allows you to set up the Linux console, change the font, > resize text mode virtual consoles and remap the keyboard. > . > You will probably want to install a set of data files, such as the one > in the > > > I think there is a part missing. The description is complete, but the next character is a Unicode character (LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK, “) without a direct counterpart in the charset you use. Some other packages are also affected by this — try “LANG=C apt-cache show writer2latex”, for example –, so I guess it makes sense to tackle this problem at its root. The easiest fix I can think of is iconv’s transliteration feature, which automatically replaces problematic characters with a close match: $ echo “” | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT "" A patch for apt is attached. Cheers, -- Michael Schutte <michi@uiae.at>
--- apt-0.7.20.2/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc 2009-02-07 16:09:35.000000000 +0100
+++ apt-0.7.20.2+524406/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc 2009-04-18 11:41:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -45,8 +45,10 @@
const char *inbuf;
char *inptr, *outbuf, *outptr;
size_t insize, outsize;
+ char tocode[strlen(codeset) + 11];
+ sprintf(tocode, "%s//TRANSLIT", codeset);
- cd = iconv_open(codeset, "UTF-8");
+ cd = iconv_open(tocode, "UTF-8");
if (cd == (iconv_t)(-1)) {
// Something went wrong
if (errno == EINVAL)
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