On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 21:40, Eduard Bloch wrote: > - to not break non-ASCII chars, LANG must be either C or a valid > xx_YY.UTF-8 locale > - LC_CTYPE must be a valid locale string (or I am misguided by the > whiptail bug, see below) > - LC_MESSAGES is used by modconf. It should contain a _, . and .UTF-8
Ah, here's some top comedy. Can you try this patch to modconf and see if anything changes? It seems that if you pass whiptail an LC_MESSAGES for which it can't find any support files, it gives up on loading locale data altogether and doesn't even attempt to read in the LC_CTYPE data. p. --- dialog.old Mon Feb 25 22:15:40 2002 +++ dialog Mon Feb 25 22:14:47 2002 @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ backtitle="$BACKTITLE" fi + LC_MESSAGES= $DIALOG_TEST $DIALOG_COMMAND $DIALOG_OPTIONS --title "$title" \ --backtitle "$backtitle" "$type" "$text " 0 0 "$@" 2>&1 1>$ttydev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]