Package: gettext Version: 0.17-9 Severity: wishlist If I run this in gnome-terminal:
% msgunfmt /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-2.0.mo then msgunfmt makes msgids purple and msgstrs blue, by adding escape sequences like "\033[34m" to the output. However, if I pipe the output to less, like so: % msgunfmt /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-2.0.mo | less -R then I do not get any colors. Apparently, msgunfmt detects that stdout is not a terminal. Such detection is all right but there should be a way to enable colors regardless. In ls and git, this is done with a --color option, but msgunfmt does not support that: % LANG=C msgunfmt --color /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-2.0.mo msgunfmt: unrecognized option '--color' Try `msgunfmt --help' for more information. I can instead get the desired result by filtering the output through msgcat: % msgunfmt /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-2.0.mo | msgcat --color - | less -R but it seems silly that msgunfmt cannot do this on its own, given that it already supports colorizing the output to a terminal. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gettext depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.5.6 Debian package management system ii gettext-base 0.17-9 GNU Internationalization utilities ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcroco3 0.6.2-1 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgomp1 4.4.2-9 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libxml2 2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library Versions of packages gettext recommends: ii cvs 1:1.12.13-12 Concurrent Versions System ii wget 1.12-1.1 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages gettext suggests: pn gettext-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
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