[MPlayer-translations] help/help_mp-it.h vs. UTF-8

[Paul TT]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:26:33 +0200
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 01:39:20AM +0200, Paul TT wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:56:31 +0200
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > 
> > ....
> > > > > I had it_IT.UTF-8 at euro for everything but not LANG, which was
> > > > > it_IT at euro.
> > > > 
> > > > There you have it, this is not an UTF-8 locale.  Reconfigure
> > > > your system to use a UTF-8 locale like it_IT.UTF-8.  On your
> > > > Debian system you could run dpkg-reconfigure locales and make
> > > > sure that the right one shows up in /etc/default/locale.  Also
> > > > set shell variables like LANG and LC_ALL to this value.
> > > 
> > > What is the status here?  If this does not get fixed, I will
> > > revert the file to the last UTF-8 version.
> > > 
> > it should have been fixed
> 
> It is not fixed.

sigh :(

> > anyway when i svn update it, then file doesn't recognize it again as
> > utf-8.
> > but when i do the commit it is _indeed_ utf-8
> 
> What makes you think it is UTF-8?  Have you looked at the file in
> less? In vim (my statusline shows "help/help_mp-it.h" [converted])?
> Have you checked with the 'file' command?

yes and yes.

> > can you -or someone else- check if its' really utf'ed in the repo.
> 
> It is not UTF-8:
> 
> silver:/var/tmp/mplayer_vanilla $ file file help/help_mp-it.h
> help/help_mp-it.h: Non-ISO extended-ASCII C++ program text

here is the same, but _after_ the commit
before, 'file' recognizes it as utf-8
now i'll retry the commit with the utf-8 file i saved.....
pls tell me if then it is utf'd...
sorry for the annoyance, but anyway this problem must be solved, sigh

> > now my machine it's ok, after the reinstallation LANG was left as
> > above, now it's all ok.
> 
> This sentence confuses me.  What is your locale now?  What is the
> value of the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables, what do you have
> in /etc/default/locale?

€ echo $LANG
it_IT.UTF-8 at euro

€ echo $LC_ALL
it_IT.UTF-8 at euro

€ cat /etc/default/locale 
LANG=it_IT.UTF-8