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Hi Mowgli,
Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> I usually have latin1-Encoding everywhere. The output of translate is
> good but the input does not allow latin1-umlauts like ä, ö, ü, ... I can
> input them but they always returns nothing.
Interesting, thanks for the bug report.
> Older versions worked well but I cannot say, when the incompatibility
> was implemented. At least version 0.6 worked well.
Can you check which Debian package of 0.6? All recent (non-comment)
UTF-8 related changes I see in the git log seemed to have been in
0.6-6 and 0.6-7. Which actually were long ago (2005).
Just a thought: Could it be that this change in Debian's locales could
have caused some unexpected side effect on already configured
non-UTF-8 locales?
locales (2.31-14) unstable; urgency=low
* Starting with locales 2.31-14, non UTF-8 locales are deprecated and not
offered anymore in the debconf dialog, except for the ones already
configured. Nevertheless users of non UTF-8 locales are encouraged to
switch their system to an UTF-8 locale.
Please note that iconv still supports conversion to and from non UTF-8
charset. For instance reading a file using an ISO-8859-15 charset can be
done with: iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-15 foobar.txt
-- Aurelien Jarno Tue, 17 Aug 2021 16:27:59 +0200
> The strange thing is, that I see no reason for the bug. Even when I do
> `bash -x /usr/bin/translate ...` it DOES iconv my input. But if I just
> do `/usr/bin/translate ...`, it doesn't. This bug is a full riddle for
> me.
[…]
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Or could this LC_CTYPE with C.UTF-8 be the reason? Because this would
likely cause $UTF8 to be set in the script:
UTF8=0
if locale 2>&1 | grep -E -q "UTF-8?$"; then
UTF8=1
fi
Actually I just now noticed a typo in that regexp. It likely should be
"UTF-?8$" and not "UTF-8?$" (i.e. the dash is optional, not the digit
eight). That typo is now fixed in git. (I though don't think that this
typo caused your issue. It could have caused issues the other way
around: Not properly detected UTF-8 locales.)
Regards, Axel
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