On 9/1/15, Francesco Poli <[email protected]> wrote: ... > But, if I try the following odd locale configuration (Italian language > with 'C' locale settings), I get a crash: > > $ LANGUAGE='it_IT:it' LC_ALL='C' locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=it_IT:it > LC_CTYPE="C" > LC_NUMERIC="C" > LC_TIME="C" > LC_COLLATE="C" > LC_MONETARY="C" > LC_MESSAGES="C" > LC_PAPER="C" > LC_NAME="C" > LC_ADDRESS="C" > LC_TELEPHONE="C" > LC_MEASUREMENT="C" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" > LC_ALL=C > $ LANGUAGE='it_IT:it' LC_ALL='C' apt-listbugs -v > /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/aptlistbugs/logic.rb:390:in `width': "\xC3" from > ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError) ... > The failing statements are: > > DeprecatedWarning = _("********** on_hold IS DEPRECATED. USE p INSTEAD > to use pin **********") > DeprecatedWarningHeader = "*" * Unicode.width(DeprecatedWarning) > > If I understand correctly, what seems to happen is that: > > • the DeprecatedWarning string is assigned the Italian translation of > the English message > > • the English message is ASCII, while the Italian translation > includes some non-ASCII UTF-8 characters > > • ruby-gettext returns a non-UTF-8 string, since LC_CTYPE is 'C' (?)
It looks like a ruby-gettext error, GNU gettext in such cases returns original string (because LC_MESSAGES=C), but I should check docs for gettext.
