bug#4417: 23.1.50; vc-hg is broken in non-English locales

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-09-22 20:14 +0200, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
>
>   > Setting LANG to C works around the problems.  For the reference, this is
>   > my mercurial version:
>   > 
>   > ,----
>   > | % hg --version
>   > | Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.3.1)
>   > `----
>
> I have:
> hg --version
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.3)

Should not matter, the German translation has apparently not been
updated between 1.3 and 1.3.1.

>   > When opening a file in a mercurial-controlled directory, the modeline
>   > shows "Hg-0" instead of the revision number in my de_DE.UTF-8 locale.
>   > Moreover, after pressing "C-x v l", the *vc-change-log* buffer is
>   > unfontified, and standard keys (d, f) do not work there, because hg's
>   > output is in German:
>   > 
>   > ,----
>   > | Änderung:        1587:1cdfa7c5503e
>   > | Vorgänger:       1585:ef75fa728cca
>   > | Nutzer:          Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
>   > | Datum:           Sun Jul 20 12:31:09 2008 -0700
>   > | Zusammenfassung: Document how aptitude handles double-quotes.
>   > `----
>
> I can't reproduce this, doing:
>
> env LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 hg log
>
> does not print German headings.
>
> so it looks like this might be a bug in 1.3.1 or maybe in your
> installation.

Well, I would not call it a bug if a program puts out messages in a
language that it has been asked for.  I rather think it's a bug in your
installation that it does not do that. 

> Can you please check?

I'm not familiar with the gory details of Debian's Python setup.
The message catalog for mercurial is in a strange directory, namely
/usr/share/pyshared/mercurial/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES, rather than the
usual /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES that all other programs use.

Sven