Control; tags -1 patch On 2021-04-06 11:42 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: locales > Version: 2.31-11 > Severity: normal > Tags: l10n > > Running "dpkg-reconfigure locales" in a German locale displays broken > non-ASCII characters, see the attached screenshot. > > It seems this is because of a mismatch between content and declared > encoding in debian/po/de.po. I will send a patch when I have the bug > number. The attached patch should fix the problem, although I have not tested it. Would be good if this bug could be fixed before the bullseye release, as it leaves a rather bad impression of Debian on new German users. Cheers, Sven
From 63e86db18f950c49c7c90cb737feb480d4934c20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 11:47:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] debian/po/de.po: declare correct charset Commit a7644d7c8f2b ("debian/po/de.po: recode to UTF-8.") changed the encoding of the file to UTF-8, but inadvertently left the charset at ISO-8859-15, resulting in broken debconf dialogs. Closes: #986450 --- debian/po/de.po | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/po/de.po b/debian/po/de.po index 74a84c15..13b95629 100644 --- a/debian/po/de.po +++ b/debian/po/de.po @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ msgstr "" "Language-Team: de <debian-l10n-ger...@lists.debian.org>\n" "Language: German\n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" -"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15\n" +"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #. Type: multiselect -- 2.31.0