#208992 dselect: help text broken in UTF-8 locales

Package:
dselect
Source:
dpkg
Description:
Debian package management front-end
Submitter:
Martin Godisch
Date:
2010-05-06 13:33:10 UTC
Severity:
normal
#208992#3
Date:
2003-09-06 18:06:57 UTC
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The German l10n of the dselect help text is broken in an UTF-8 xterm
(LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8), it reads:

Sie sollten die Liste der Tasten und die Erklärung der Anzeige durchlesen.
Es ist viel Hilfe verfügbar, bitte nutzen Sie sie - drücken Sie jederzeit »?�
�,
um die Hilfe aufzurufen.

ISO-8859-1 output is o.k.

Kind regards,

Martin
#208992#14
Date:
2003-09-16 12:54:52 UTC
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BTW, you shouldn't set LC_ALL, but LANG.

I cannot reproduce this behaviour. dselect shows correct national
characters in both de_DE and de_DE.UTF-8 (and fr_FR.UTF-8) on my machine.

The only thing that's not correct is that the main menu doesn't line up
as dselect believes that 1 byte = 1 character, but - according to
Wichert - this is not a bug; and it is not restricted to the German
locale anyway.

Bye,
    Mike
#208992#21
Date:
2004-06-01 17:44:27 UTC
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Closing...

Scott
#208992#24
Date:
2004-06-02 03:02:48 UTC
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See attachment.

Kind regards,

Martin
#208992#33
Date:
2004-06-30 13:03:53 UTC
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This bug is not specific to German. It also appears in fr_FR.UTF-8, in
the help screen in the select section for non-root users.