On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Jorge wrote: > Hello, > > I'm suscribing just to make a bug report about cfdisk. I hope that's ok. > Here we go: > > When you want to write changes to disk you're asked for a confirmation, > like this one: > > Are you sure you want to write the partition table to disk? (yes or > no) > > There is no problem on the English version, but when you launch the > program in Spanish you get this: > > ¿Está seguro de que desea escribir la tabla de particiones en el > disco? > (sí o no): > > You can't type the "í" character. Trying to do so will end in no input > at all. That is, typing in my keyboard "´" then "i" leads to nothing. So > you can't write changes to disk, and you must launch the program in > English for it to operate. > > The same happens in Catalonian language, and probably another languages > as well, as stated on this bug at Launchpad: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/205327 > > One simple workaround arised some years ago was changing the > confirmation strings to only-ascii characters, so we just need to input > "si". I strongly believe that this was a Debian-specific workaround, > never entered upstream. Ok, it's a pity that we can't use correct Spanish here, but rule #1 says "it has to work", so I have changed the translation. Try this if you want to test it: wget http://translationproject.org/PO-files/es/util-linux-ng-2.17.1-rc1.es.po msgfmt util-linux-ng-2.17.1-rc1.es.po mv messages.mo /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux-ng.mo (Will continue to work on it, as it has still lot of work to do). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html