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Hallo Andreas,
Am Fr den 29. Sep 2006 um 11:24 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> I have the strange feeling that this is the very same problem as
> you reported as #316953 but it shows up differently. You reported
> that the French fortunes would print nicely (fortunes-fr) and
> thus my idea was to do the same things as the French people
> did (and took over the nice debconf selection which is a nice
> add in functionality).
Might be...
> I would like you to try some more fortunes until you find
> one without any Umlaut. If I seek for you example
I did. And it gave strange behavior:
Some fortunes with umlauts gets printed correct some not.
Sample:
~> fortune de
Das wäre dann so eine Art Negativ-Steuer.
-- Thomas Uwe Grüttmüller
~> fortune de
lleicht muß man die Liebe gefühlt haben, um die Freundschaft
richtig zu erkennen.
-- Nicolas Sébastien de Chamfort
~> fortune
Kommt der Gockel unter'n Trecker, gibt es morgens keinen Wecker.
~> fortune
Wie kann man junge Pflanzen von Unkraut unterscheiden? Man reißt alles aus.
Was wiederkommt ist Unkraut.
~> fortune
~> fortune
hrige die
Siebzigjährige.
-- Oliver Hassencamp
If I use the version with -m ALL works.
> Definitely not. The files that are seeked by fortune are in
> /usr/share/games/fortunes/de that contains symlinks to the place
> you mentioned. The symlinks are set according to the debconf selection.
Ah, ok.
> It is the same for you? My guess is that this is a bug in reportbug
> and I will verify this by replacing any Umlaut in the DebConf template
> if you commit that you observed the same.
I'ts the same and I just add a note to the bugreport #386659.
> >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Is this shell known to show encoding problems? (Can you verify the
> problem with bash?)
The bug also happens with bash as /bin/sh.
> >Kernel: Linux 2.4.32
>
> Could you test fortunes-de on a different box?
Sure but I have no other etch-box. All other is sid or sarge.
> This machine does not seem to be a machine set up with Etch installer.
Well, no, it was allways upgraded from older machines. And yes, I do
never ever use the debian kernel as I do compile it by myself. And for
stable machines I need a stable kernel, no developement version 2.6.x!
> Is it possible that over several updates something in the encoding
> settings became brocken. I observed similar things when I used a box
> that was updated from Woody to Sarge and now to Etch. It would
> be great if you could test this on a freshly installed machine. My
> suspection is that not fortunes-de is brocken itself but some
> encoding settings.
That might be possible. But then there is also a bug (maybe on another
place.)
> Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Well, I live in swizerland and when I lifed in germany years ago there
was no "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". ;-)
Gruß
Klaus
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