[DRE-maint] Bug#799050: Help needed with a locale-related issue

[Francesco Poli]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:10:52 +0300 Hleb Valoshka wrote:

> On 9/14/15, Francesco Poli <invernomuto at paranoici.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hence, it seems to me that the trouble is not caused by the original
> > string, but by those translated strings that include non-ASCII UTF-8
> > characters and are somehow sent as non-UTF-8 non-pure-ASCII strings,
> > whenever LC_CTYPE=C ...
> 
> Yes, 100% correct. And the the package to blame is the ruby-locale,
> I've filed #799050.

Thanks a lot for filing the bug report on the Debian BTS, for
forwarding it upstream and for implementing a patch!

I see that the forwarded report has been closed. I have a doubt,
though: would the patch fix the issue when LANGUAGE='it' LC_CTYPE=C ?

I mean: I also get a crash with

  $ LANGUAGE='it' LC_CTYPE=C locale
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE=it
  LC_CTYPE=C
  LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_ALL=
  $ LANGUAGE='it' LC_CTYPE=C apt-listbugs -v
  /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/aptlistbugs/logic.rb:390:in `width': "\xC3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError)
          from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/aptlistbugs/logic.rb:390:in `<class:SimpleViewer>'
          from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/aptlistbugs/logic.rb:387:in `<class:Viewer>'
          from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/aptlistbugs/logic.rb:381:in `<top (required)>'
          from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
          from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
          from /usr/bin/apt-listbugs:349:in `<main>'


But the patch seems to only take LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, and LANG into
account...


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