gtypist wont start: i18n problem

The reason is improperly encoding of file /usr/share/ru.typ. It uses KOI8-R.

You can recode the file with iconv to UTF-8 or run English version of interface (LANG=C gtypist).

I think developers need to correct the program to better support different character sets. And, as a minimum, include in the package file in the correct encoding, since Ubuntu uses UTF-8 by default.

Oh, sorry, I mixed this mistake with another. But comment that I wrote is true too.

Launching with right locale encoding (LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R gtypist ru.typ) can solve the trouble with msgid. But the problem with ru.typ remains.

This error is caused by the following lines (gtypist.c:1902).

  if (strlen(YN) != 3 || YN[1] != '/' || !isupper(YN[0]) || !isupper(YN[2]))
    {
      fprintf( stderr,
        "%s: i18n problem: invalid value for msgid \"Y/N\": %s\n",
        argv0, YN );
      exit( 1 );
    }

This check is wrong for multi-byte encodings (UTF-8, for example).

There is at least one similar fragment (gtypist.c:1911).

I guess strings «Y/N» and «R/N/E» must remain untranslated.

P.S. I use source from Ubuntu 9.04.

Same with 9.10. Propose genocide of localisators :) Do they test something after localisation?

Seems like they tested it only with KOI8-R :-).

Just to let you know, this has been noticed upstream.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?33957

To follow up... The problem is that gtypist doesn't currently support UTF-8. Support for UTF-8 has been added and will be available in the forthcoming 2.9 release.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This bug was fixed in the package gtypist - 2.9-3

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gtypist (2.9-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/gtypist.emacsen-startup: Added.
  * debian/gtypist.install: Install gtypist emacs mode.
  * debian/TODO.debian: Added.

gtypist (2.9-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control (Build-Depends): Removed unused libncurses5-dev.
    (Recommends): Added fortune-cookie-db or typefortune won't be of help.
    (Description): Added a note about fortune-cookie-db.
  * debian/gtypist.doc-base.cs: Added.
  * debian/gtypist.doc-base.en: Ditto.
  * debian/gtypist.doc-base.es: Ditto.
  * debian/gtypist.docs: Added manuals in HTML format.
  * debian/gtypist.install: Ship tools in doc directory (closes: #325565).
  * debian/README.debian: Added notes about fortune cookies and the recently
    added tools.
  * debian/patches/fix_manual_page_issues.patch: Extended. A note in the
    manual page will inform users about the necessity of having fortune
    cookies installed.

gtypist (2.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (closes: #620811).
    - Fixes broken UTF-8 support for terminals (closes: #642489;
      LP: #281946, #501541).
    - Fixes minor punctuation error in lesson T14 (closes: #288682).

  * debian/compat: Bumped to dh compat level 7.
  * debian/control: Added Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Svn.
    (Standards-Version): Bumped to 3.9.2.
    (Build-Depends): Added libncursesw5-dev and help2man.
    (Description): Fixed description-synopsis-starts-with-article.
  * debian/copyright: Minor update.
  * debian/gtypist.info: Added.
  * debian/gtypist.lintian-overrides: Updated. Added unusual-interpreter
    for the gtypist interpreter.
  * debian/rules: Rewritten for debhelper 7.
  * debian/README.source: Dropped obsolete file.
  * debian/patches/fix_manual_page_issues.dpatch: Renamed to
    debian/patches/fix_manual_page_issues.patch and updated as quilt patch.
  * debian/patches/00list: Renamed to debian/patches/series and adjusted.
  * debian/source/format: Added for 3.0 format.
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