[Bug 884001] Re: apt expects [Y/n] instead of [J/n] in german

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Johannes Albrecht (sprechsucht at googlemail.com):
> Right, there is something messed up.
> Everything except LANGUAGE is set to en_US.
> Is there a way to repair this?
> And why is Gnome english, apt and some other programmes german?
> Shouldn't be everything in english after switching the locale?

They have different ways to inherit the locale settings.
Some override what is in LC_* variables by the content of LANGUAGE.


> 
> >>>
> $ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"

This is the culprit for the Y/N input. See locale(1)

This bug should indeed be closed. Apt is indeed behaving properly in
the specific context of your environment.

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Title:
  apt expects [Y/n] instead of  [J/n] in german

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Lucid 11.04
  apt 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.2

  This bug appears during 'apt-get upgrade' and 'apt-get install'.
  It affects the german translation.

  Every time apt asks
  Möchten Sie fortfahren [J/n]?                            (engl: Do you want to continue [Y/n]?)
  it expects a Y for Yes instead of a J for Ja.

  Upgrades and installs become impossible until one knows the english
  letter/key.

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