On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:26:20PM +0200, Michal Politowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 07:11:16 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:43:23PM +0200, Michal Politowski <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > In the pl_PL locale with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, the package sections > > > descriptions from aptitude-defaults.pl are not translated to the locale > > > encoding but the utf-8 strings are displayed as is, which produces > > > unreadable descriptions. > > > > Do you get this only in the section descriptions? I can't speak > > Polish, but when I attempt to run aptitude in ISO-8859-2 I see some odd > > artifacts elsewhere in the program, such as "1/4" appearing in menu > > titles. See the attached screen shot, for instance. > > It looks like Jarek Kaminski was faster than me with the answer, and he is > right. > With ISO-8859-2 fonts installed, menus etc. look as they should, > but the section descriptions display as if they were not recoded from UTF-8, > exactly as on his sid screenshot.
Oddly, the problem turned out to be the opposite -- the UTF-8 was being decoded as if it was ISO-8859-2. I'm not familiar with the intricacies of character encodings, but I suppose that since ISO-8859-2 is an 8-bit character set, this has the effect of passing it through unchanged. Decoding it as UTF-8 fixed the problem. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
