On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:15:29AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Umlauts were not correctly displayed at the beginning when choosing > > the keyboard and he was confused by "Tottasten". Those > > "Tottasten"/deadkeys are still confusing people. I don't know how we > > can solve this. Maybe add a note? > > This umlaute problem comes from inconsistency between console-data and > kbd-chooser translations encodings. Currently, in both copies in SVN, > the de.po file uses UTF-8 and is really UTF-8. So, the problem should > go away with further releases....
This problem does not come from PO files, encoding does not matter as long as generated templates files are UTF-8 encoded. Here is a patch against console-data to fix German umlauts. Denis
Index: debian/po/de.po =================================================================== --- debian/po/de.po (revision 1) +++ debian/po/de.po (working copy) @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ #: ../console-keymaps-atari.templates:4 ../console-keymaps-mac.templates:4 #: ../console-keymaps-sun.templates:4 ../console-keymaps-dec.templates:4 msgid "Keymap to use:" -msgstr "WÀhlen Sie das Tastaturlayout fÃŒr die Tastatur aus:" +msgstr "Wählen Sie das Tastaturlayout für die Tastatur aus:" #. Type: select #. choices
