Bug#345639: nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) ignores LANGUAGE, no apparent workaround

2006-02-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Peter Samuelson | [Tollef Fog Heen] | > Either that, or make sure YESSTR/NOSTR (from I18N::Langinfo) are | > usefully populated and use those. (They seemed generally not to be | > based on the discussion on #debian-devel yesterday). | | It's not clear to me whether YESSTR/NOSTR are supposed to

Bug#345639: nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) ignores LANGUAGE, no apparent workaround

2006-02-13 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 12:33:38AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Denis Barbier] > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:27:35PM +0100, Claudio Nieder wrote: > > > Otherwise, if for libc supported language xx_YY no message catalog > > > is supplied, the user would receive the prompt in untranslated > >

Bug#345639: nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) ignores LANGUAGE, no apparent workaround

2006-02-13 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Tollef Fog Heen] > Either that, or make sure YESSTR/NOSTR (from I18N::Langinfo) are > usefully populated and use those. (They seemed generally not to be > based on the discussion on #debian-devel yesterday). It's not clear to me whether YESSTR/NOSTR are supposed to be single-letter abbreviation

Bug#345639: nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) ignores LANGUAGE, no apparent workaround

2006-02-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Peter Samuelson | Which leaves us with the recommendation *not* to use LANGUAGE *at all*. | Would you agree? Either that, or make sure YESSTR/NOSTR (from I18N::Langinfo) are usefully populated and use those. (They seemed generally not to be based on the discussion on #debian-devel yesterday).

Bug#345639: nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) ignores LANGUAGE, no apparent workaround

2006-02-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Denis Barbier] > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:27:35PM +0100, Claudio Nieder wrote: > > Otherwise, if for libc supported language xx_YY no message catalog > > is supplied, the user would receive the prompt in untranslated > > english (y/N), but expected to type either ä or è because thats > > what n

Bug#345639: nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) ignores LANGUAGE

2006-02-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
reassign 345639 libc6 retitle 345639 nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) ignores LANGUAGE, no apparent workaround thanks [Claudio Nieder] > $ env | grep -e LC -e LANG > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=de_CH:de_DE:de:en_GB:en In this setup, a prompt "Is this information correct? [y/N]" does not work. - The prompt