Bug 75261

Summary:	German output is incomplete
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Thorsten Leemhuis <thl>
Component:	redhat-switchmail	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	mitr
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Description Thorsten Leemhuis 2002-10-06 09:38:19 UTC

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Description of problem:
After changing MTA on a german RH 8.0 a dialog pops up with the incomplete
sentence "Ihre MTA Konfiguration wurde erfolgreich aktualisiert, Sie m"
There it stops

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Change Locale to german
2.Start redhat-switchmail
3.Klick Okay
	

Actual Results:  See desciption

Expected Results:  A complete sentence?

Additional info:

[thl@work thl]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="de_DE.UTF-8:de_DE:de"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Comment 1 Ngo Than 2002-10-06 10:36:01 UTC

It's perhaps a bug in po file.

Comment 2 Miloslav Trmac 2002-10-06 12:30:40 UTC

The trouble is that redhat-switchmail doesn't like when the .po
files are not in UTF-8. While gettext () does transparent charset
conversion, something in redhat-switchmail doesn't.

Looking at i18n CVS, this will probably affect at least the following languages:
da, de, es fr, is, it, ru; not sure about ja.
It also affects cs, which is already fixed in CVS.

This problem occurrs also in apacheconf, bindconf, hwbrowser,
redhat-config-services and up2date (though the affected language sets differ).
I will file bugs for these packages shortly.

The workaround is to recode the file to UTF-8, i. e.
cd /usr/share/locale/XX/LC_MESSAGES
msgunfmt redhat-switchmail.mo -o x
fgrep Content-Type x         [see charset]
iconv -f charset_from_above -t utf-8 < x > x2
msgfmt x2 -o redhat-switchmail.mo

Comment 3 Miloslav Trmac 2002-10-06 12:34:31 UTC

Oh, I forgot: the symptoms include message
** (redhat-switchmail:1220): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to
pango_layout_set_text()

when redhat-switchmail is run from a terminal.

Comment 4 Miloslav Trmac 2002-10-06 12:41:02 UTC

I'm terribly sorry; in the workaround, replace the iconv line with
msgconv -t utf-8 x -o x2

Comment 5 Miloslav Trmac 2002-10-06 14:04:20 UTC

Other packages seem no to be affected, all but up2date (and redhat-switchmail)
do automatic recoding to UTF-8 before compiling the catalogs.

Comment 6 Than Ngo 2003-08-12 10:24:06 UTC

the problem is that the po files are not saved in utf-8. It's fixed now in
redhat-switch-mail-0.5.19-1 or newer, which is available in rawhide