On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:46:31PM +0100, Guus Snijders wrote: > On 21-02-10 00:34, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >Trying to translate some of the entries in > > > >/etc/X11/xdm/archlinux/Xresources > >to Italian I get strange results. > [...] > > Xlogin*namePrompt:Nome d'utente\040: > > Xlogin*passwdPrompt:Parola d'ordine\040: > > > >just give me the defaults. > > Looking at this from a shell perspective, i'd say it has a problem > with the "'" (single quote) char. In some programminglanguages you > can escape it with a "\", i'm not sure about this file, though. > But maybe you could try that. > > Your namePrompt would become: > Xlogin*namePrompt:Nome d\'utente\040: That doesn't work. It works only if both the space and the ' are written as octal: Nome\040d\047utente:\040 This is strange, as normally no escapes are required in xrdb values. The man page explicitly mentions 'any character except non-escaped newline', and that is also my experience when using e.g. ~/.Xresources. Normally leading spaces are stripped, trailing ones are not, and there's no further translation. The problem seems to be typical to xdm, doing its own processing on the string supplied by the xrdb. OTOH, the fixed 'Password:' is probably the result of this prompt being taken from PAM rather than from the resources. I've not yet found out how to change it there. Setting an Italian locale doesn't affect it. Thanks for your reply, ciao -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
