GNU Mailman

Use correct char set for command-line scripts

Bug #558167 reported by trmac
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNU Mailman
Fix Released
Medium
Mark Sapiro
GNU Mailman 2.1.21

Bug Description

The command-line scripts in mailman-2.1.5 share the i18n
framework with the rest of mailman, but unlike the rest
of mailman,
mailman is not in control of the characer set used; it
should always
use the character set specified by the LC_CTYPE locale
category.
Currently on a system using e.g. LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 the
Czech (cs) translation is selected, but the output uses the
character set of the translation (ISO 8859-2), not UTF-8.

The attached patch (roughly against 2.1.5) adds
Mailman.i18n.C_(),
which works like _(), except that the output is in the
LC_CTYPE-specified encoding, and modifies all command-line
utilities to use it.

Related branches

lp:mailman/2.1
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trmac (trmac) wrote :

The file mailman-2.1.5-LC_CTYPE.patch was added: Honor LC_CTYPE in command-line utilities

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Yasuhito FUTATSUKI at POEM (futatuki) wrote :

This bug still annoys Japanese users using ja_JP.UTF-8 locale on their terminals, using euc-jp as list charset.
Fortunately, patch attached to comment #1 has been maintained on rpm sources for fedora/RHEL
with additional patches, so I'm try to review them and working on a branch to follow latest 2.1 branch,
lp:mailman/2.1-commandline-locale (merged these patches, fix for potfile making, but not tested yet).

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Yasuhito FUTATSUKI at POEM (futatuki) wrote :

I have tested for each commands under bin, with -h option on both of ja_JP.UTF-8 and ja_JP.eucJP terminal
environment by using LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES environment variables. It works fine.

Some commands still outputs untranslated messages, bin/b4b5-archfix and bin/transcheck for example,
but It is because those messages are not wrapped in _() or C_().

I'll send merge request.

Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Changed in mailman:
assignee: nobody → Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → 2.1.21
status: New → Fix Committed
Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Changed in mailman:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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