On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 01:43:25PM +0100, Roch Auburtin wrote: > Hi, > > I try to get all error messages translated in French. > I use svn version 1.6.4 on Ubuntu server and access the repositories > through Apache + mod_dav_svn > > I have compiled svn from source and compiled the french .mo file, > then I placed the .mo file in the correct place. > I also set the language as follow: > > export LC_ALL='fr_FR.UTF-8' > > To get error messages, I committed a working folder which was not > up-to-date and I obtained: > > svn ci -m 'test delete' > Suppression dir1 > svn: Échec de la propagation (commit), détails : > svn: Item '/dir1' is out of date > > As you can see, only a part of the errors are translated. > The message "Item '/dir1' is out of date" is not translated. > > I guessed that I had this problem because this error is raised by > the code running on the server. > > So I tried to set the language in the envvars file of apache such as: > > export LANG='fr_FR.UTF-8' > export LC_ALL='fr_FR.UTF-8' > > I restarted apache but I got the same pb. > I googled to find a solution to this problem and it seems that the > problem is related to the mod_dav_svn code that don't use the > defined locale. > > Could you confirm that I am right and do you know a solution to this > problem?
All apache httpd modules run in the C locale. This is a security feature of apache httpd. There is currently no way to override this in Subversion's mod_dav_svn. See issue #2487, "mod_dav_svn and locales fail to play nicely together": http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2487
