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Bug#545208: aptitude: UTF-8 issues with long descriptions



On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 14:28 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:

>   This didn't happen in en_US.UTF-8 for me, but it did happen in
> en_AU.UTF-8.  I didn't have locale data for en_AU; when I ran
> "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and generated some, I suddenly could see the
> whole description.  This affects all frontends.
...
>   You particular case is probably due to having screwed up locale data
> (run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and enable your locale).  However, this
> is IMO poor behavior on apt's part -- you'll see the same thing on a
> system running in an ASCII locale, for instance.  I'll reassign the bug
> over there.

Ah, I just found that I set LANG=C in ~root/.bashrc so that is likely
the issue. I have the en_AU.UTF-8 locale, so removing that from my
bashrc fixed the issue for me.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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