Locale problem ??? after HUGE upgrade [SOLVED]

Skyscraper · 2006-06-23 20:31:30

I've discovered a problem after recent HUGE upgrade.

I no longer have any Polish (iso-8859-2, UTF8) characters in my Konsole (KDE) and terminal without X's when local characters are showing on the screen. When I type, everything is Ok.

My rc.conf:

LOCALE="pl_PL.iso88592"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Warsaw"
KEYMAP="pl"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=

i used LOCALE="pl_PL.utf8" too

and /etc/locale-gen

pl_PL.UTF-8     UTF-8
pl_PL   ISO-8859-2

and locales were generated correctly...

Anyone has any ideas?
Thanks!

swiergot · 2006-06-23 21:04:10

If we are thinking about the same thing, I believe it's coreutils' fault - since version 5.96-1 Polish letters are broken for applications from this package. Try 'awk --help', you should be able see Polish letters correctly. Unfortunatelly, I don't know why this is happening.

Skyscraper · 2006-06-23 21:25:52

swiergot wrote:

If we are thinking about the same thing, I believe it's coreutils' fault - since version 5.96-1 Polish letters are broken for applications from this package. Try 'awk --help', you should be able see Polish letters correctly. Unfortunatelly, I don't know why this is happening.

You're right "awk --help" showed letters correctly.
So i think i'll have to wait for some kind of solution
Thanks for the hint swiergot

Skyscraper · 2006-06-23 21:52:19

Well I found a confirmation on Polish Slackware Forum - http://forum.slackware.pl/viewtopic.php?t=9776 - the same problem.

Is it safe to downgrade coreutils to older versionright now in Arch?

Skyscraper · 2006-06-23 21:57:01

And here (for Those who can speak Polish )
http://forum.slackware.pl/viewtopic.php?t=9800

Skyscraper · 2006-06-23 22:01:03

And here's the SOLUTION!:
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1. download ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/packages/priva … 5.96.pl.po
2. type
# msgfmt coreutils-5.96.pl.po -o coreutils.mo
3. replace bad files with new one (remember to make a backup )
# mv coreutils.mo /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/

Thanks Sajmon from Polish Slackware Forum!

swiergot · 2006-06-23 22:07:11

Looks like somebody tried to convert the Polish translation to UTF-8 and screwed up. It will be fixed in the next release as it's now ok again in coreutils' CVS.

In the meantime here is a fixed package:

http://herkules.pcz.pl/~swiergot/arch/c … pkg.tar.gz

Kardell · 2007-05-08 10:39:43

How nice to see like polish ppls are talking in foreign language. :-P

I thought that was coreutils problem after my last big upgrade, but it was only /etc/profile fault . ;-)

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#1 2006-06-23 20:31:30

Locale problem ??? after HUGE upgrade [SOLVED]

#2 2006-06-23 21:04:10

Re: Locale problem ??? after HUGE upgrade [SOLVED]

#3 2006-06-23 21:25:52

Re: Locale problem ??? after HUGE upgrade [SOLVED]

#4 2006-06-23 21:52:19

Re: Locale problem ??? after HUGE upgrade [SOLVED]

#5 2006-06-23 21:57:01

Re: Locale problem ??? after HUGE upgrade [SOLVED]

#6 2006-06-23 22:01:03

Re: Locale problem ??? after HUGE upgrade [SOLVED]

#7 2006-06-23 22:07:11

Re: Locale problem ??? after HUGE upgrade [SOLVED]

#8 2007-05-08 10:39:43

Re: Locale problem ??? after HUGE upgrade [SOLVED]

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