Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > 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
I think LANG=C will cause the dialog boxes to have ??????? chars > > - LC_CTYPE must be a valid locale string (or I am misguided by the > > whiptail bug, see below) > > I'm not completely convinced about these two. That sounds to me like > your whiptail is still not fully UTF-8 enabled. > > Remember that "de_DE.UTF-8" is not actually a valid locale string while > dbootstrap is running. From what I remember, the only locale for which > the data files exist is C@utf-8. The dbootstrap startup script sets > LC_CTYPE=C@utf-8, which is necessary for dbootstrap itself to work, and > this should be inherited by all its children. Is it possible to satisfy them with a symlink ? $ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 strace whiptail 2>&1 | grep local | grep 3 open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_MEASUREMENT", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_TELEPHONE", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_ADDRESS", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_NAME", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_PAPER", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_MONETARY", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_TIME", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = 3 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]