I looked at the code more in depth and it appears that all the calls to str.lower() in softwarecenter/db/update.py are applied on ASCII-only strings, therefore the overhead of using a locale-independent translation table is not needed.
For details, see the freedesktop specification for desktop entries: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html. The relevant keys here are "Type", "Categories" and "X-AppInstall-Ignore", all of which are non-localized strings. -- update-software-center does not work properly in Turkish locales https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581207 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
