On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:29:43PM +0100, Erik Hahn wrote: >> If additional packages must be installed by the auto-install command you >> will be asked in the German translation: >> "Möchten sie fortfahren? [J/n]". This suggest you have to press 'J' for >> "Ja" (German word for "yes") in order to continue. If you do so, >> module-assistant aborts. You have to press 'y', as in the untanslated >> English version. > > This is most likely shown by APT. But it works in sid, and should have > worked in lenny as well as far as I can tell. In the earlier days, the > only allowed answer was "j/J" in a German locale (Bug#194614, fixed in > 2005). This was changed in 2003, so it accepts y/Y/j/J.
I guess this is messed up l10n configuration - or support of it. APT is using "nl_langinfo(YESEXPR)" to get a localized regex which will be returned based on the LC_MESSAGES language. The displayed string on the other hand can be influenced by LANGUAGE, so you might end up with a display message for another language than the regex string. You can try this with (use your own local instead of de_DE.UTF-8 maybe): LANGUAGE=C LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 apt-get install awesome --print-uris You will see that all messages displayed are in english, but the prompt happily accepts (in my case) a german "j" as input for yes. That seems to be a "frequent" problem, see e.g. 345639, without a known solution (you might see YESSTR mentioned – its gone in the mean time). The only "real solution" I can think of is stopping to use yes-no-prompts completely and instead do something like: Do you want to continue (type anything to abort; no input means yes)? hell no! Abort. I am not really sure this is actually better (reminds me of the "press ANY-key to continue"-joke somehow) and if we would change it it would be a very very painful transition… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
