Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.15.8-1 Severity: important
Hi, The help page in its current implementation is not much of help if the locale character set is not UTF-8 (and probably most locales are not set to that, yet). With that, there is a lot of garbage. So, a simple printing of the help text to the screen is NOT enough, you MUST convert it to the local charset, first! This is not that bad for German users (like me, not so many umlauts in the translation) but look out for zh_CN with "dpkg-reconfigure locales": 4 different character sets possible! If you do not want to recode it at runtime (iconv can help here, should be pretty easy), you can also recode at and ship one file for each combination that the locales package supports. HS -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3 0.5.28.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-1.2-5c102 1.2.5-1 Type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
