[SOLVED] Report: Slackpkg tools non-latin alphabet problem

sbolokanov · 10-13-2017, 04:30 AM

Since some time Slackware (-current) started preparing for going unicode (or I'm wrong?).

I do like to report that when one tries to say install a package with a path containing non-latin symbols (or at least that happens with cyrillic) the following happens:

Code:

root@sevar:~# installpkg /home/sbolokanov/Изтегляния/wine-staging-2.18-x86_64-1sg.txz 
rev: stdin: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Cannot install /home/sbolokanov/Изтегляния/wine-staging-2.18-x86_64-1sg.txz:  external compression utility  missing

Didier Spaier · 10-13-2017, 05:19 AM

Simon, what happens if you comment the lines 65 and 66 in /sbin/installpkg, like this:
# LANG=C
# export LANG
You will most probably also need to replace line 62:
unset LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY \
removing LANG so it becomes:
unset LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY \

That's what we do in Slint but honestly I didn't try yet paths including multi-byte encoded characters, so I'm interested to know the outcome.

PS Maybe you could just comment out all lines from 62 through 66 as un-setting LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE can hurt too.

sbolokanov · 10-14-2017, 07:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Simon, what happens if you comment the lines 65 and 66 in /sbin/installpkg, like this:
# LANG=C
# export LANG
You will most probably also need to replace line 62:
unset LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY \
removing LANG so it becomes:
unset LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY \

That's what we do in Slint but honestly I didn't try yet paths including multi-byte encoded characters, so I'm interested to know the outcome.

PS Maybe you could just comment out all lines from 62 through 66 as un-setting LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE can hurt too.

I commented out all of them and it actually worked.

Thanks Didier!