Hi, Thanks for your quick response.
> This looks to me like some sort of locale problem, but it doesn't > happen here even if I duplicate your locale settings. Could you try > running > > LC_ALL=de_DE aptitude > LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 aptitude > > and see if you can still reproduce this bug? You are right. I normally use LANG=C. Simply adding LC_CTYPE=de_DE prevents aptitude from crashing. One thing I don't understand is why this affects the ^-key (0x5e). This is an ascii letter. > I'm not quite sure what aptitude can do in this case, since it sounds > like your locale is set up in a way that keeps curses from reading > multibyte characters. Presumably crashing is non-ideal, though. One > option would be to try to capture the errno value and somehow handle it, > maybe by throwing away the incomprehensible character and beeping? Crashing is obviously bad, because aptitude will loose all changes. Therefore beeping sounds like a good solution to me. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
