[DRE-maint] Bug#725496: de/LC_MESSAGES/apt-listbugs.mo: unknown encoding name - utf8 (ArgumentError)

[Sven Hartge]

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On 06.10.2013 22:28, Francesco Poli wrote:

> [...]
>> Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> [...]
> 
> I see that you set some locale environment variables to
> "de_DE.utf8". Shouldn't it be "de_DE.UTF-8"?

locale -a says otherwise:

oweh at ds9:~$ locale -a | grep de_DE
de_DE
de_DE at euro
de_DE.utf8

And I've had this locale setting for at least 3 years, never had any
problems, until now. I don't remember, where I got this setting from,
I guess from the "locale -a" output.

But: If I use "dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales" to reconfigure my
system locale in /etc/default/locale, the value configured is
"de_DE.UTF-8", so this would then be the correct value.

> I've just checked with
> 
> # LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 aptitude install some_package
> 
> and both aptitude and apt-listbugs ran correctly with output in
> German. Please try and set your locale to "de_DE.UTF-8": it should
> make apt-listbugs work correctly.

Correct.

But there is a catch, I just realized:

I set LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 _but_ LC_MESSAGES=en_EN.UTF-8, because while I
would like to get German sorting and German number delimiters, German
date output, etc. I would like all programs to be still in English.

But apt-listbugs is German, while apt-get is English:

[...]
Get:11 http://http.debian.net/debian/ sid/main bsd-mailx i386
8.1.2-0.20131005cvs-1 [77,7 kB]
Fetched 4.636 kB in 6s (706 kB/s)

[master ca09529] saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to apt run
 Author: Sven Hartge <sven at svenhartge.de>
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Laden der Fehlerberichte ... Erledigt
»Found/Fixed«-Informationen werden ausgewertet ... Erledigt
Reading changelogs... Done
apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 459735 files and directories currently installed.)
[...]

Grüße,
Sven.
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