Package: util-linux Version: 2.13.1.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: l10n When trying to use cfdisk with LANG=es_AR.UTF8 (but this would apply to any other es_**.UTF8) and asking it to "Write" the partitions, it asks in English to enter "yes" or "no", but then there's a tooltip that says that you should enter either "sí" or "no".
The problem is that it's impossible to enter "sí": even if in the rest of the system it is possible to write the special character 'í', inside cfdisk it's not possible, not even by copying and pasting the one displayed on the console. Using LANG=es_AR, however, cfdisk correctly reads the í character. So I'm guessing that cfdisk is not prepared to read multi-byte characters. Now, this bug has two possible solutions: 1) Make cfdisk correctly accept UTF-8 characters 2) Change the "yes" answer to "si" instead of "sí". While 1) might make cfdisk a better program and maybe allow for it to use some special character in some other language, I think 2) is better, because many times when one is using this type of tools, the keyboard might not yet be correctly configured and producing a special character might not be possible. It might be argued that writing "si" instead of "sí" when it means "yes" is not proper Spanish, but I think that in this case usability weights WAY more than proper use of the language. Love, Marga -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libselinux1 2.0.59-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libslang2 2.1.3-3 The S-Lang programming library - r ii libuuid1 1.40.8-2 universally unique id library ii lsb-base 3.2-12 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii tzdata 2008c-1 time zone and daylight-saving time ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime util-linux recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
