Re: simple completion example? (aptitude completion doesn't work)

[Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>]

On 5 Aug, Andy Spiegl wrote:

> > If aptitude -h is giving you a German (or other) translation, try adding
> > LC_MESSAGES=C in but I don't think that translation would actually break
> > it in this particular case.
> YES, that was it!  Of course, why didn't I think of that!?

We seem to be getting a lot of these translation related problems. Could
do with someone finding the time to look through for any further
instances.

> But there isn't such a big difference...Hm, maybe Verwendung instead of usage?
> Can you think of a workaround for international users like me?

In general, the patch below adding LC_MESSAGES=C does the job.

It's very tempting to try to make the parsing work with the German
output so that people get translated descriptions. However, if the
formats aren't consistent it's probably only asking for trouble. And the
completion code probably wouldn't handle the umlauts too well either.

Oliver

Index: Completion/Debian/Command/_aptitude
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Debian/Command/_aptitude,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 _aptitude
--- Completion/Debian/Command/_aptitude	31 Mar 2005 13:39:18 -0000	1.3
+++ Completion/Debian/Command/_aptitude	8 Aug 2005 08:59:44 -0000
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 case $state in
   cmds)
-    cmds=( ${${(M)${(f)"$(aptitude -h 2>/dev/null)"}:#* - *}/(#b) (*[^ ]) #- (*)/$match[1]:$match[2]:l})
+    cmds=( ${${(M)${(f)"$(LC_MESSAGES=C _call_program commands aptitude -h 2>/dev/null)"}:#* - *}/(#b) (*[^ ]) #- (*)/$match[1]:$match[2]:l})
 
     _describe -t commands 'aptitude command' cmds && ret=0
   ;;


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