On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:04:36AM +0200, Sylvain Pasche wrote: > When you remove essential packages, a prompt asks you to type: > > You are about to do something potentially harmful > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' > > When I use french localization: I get the following: > > Vous êtes sur le point de faire quelque chose de potentiellement dangereux > Pour continuer, tapez la phrase « Oui, faites ce que je vous dis ! » > > If I type exactly "Oui, faites ce que je vous dis !" (taken from fr.po), > apt aborts. However, when I unset LC_ALL and LANG, and I type the english > response, all is ok. > I also tried to type "Yes, do as I say!" with the french prompt, but it does > not work either.
The code is very simplistic; it just does a strcmp() on what was typed and the string returned from gettext. Are you sure that you are typing it exactly as it appears in fr.po (byte for byte)? -- - mdz

