[Hardy] cfdisk unusable in the whole hispanic world

[Liken Otsoa]

This is a Classic bug (Now revived in Hardy).

When you want to write changes to drive it asks for confirmation: sí (with an accent on i), no.

But it is impossible to put an accent in the i, therefore the drive is always secure.

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Hardy Uptodate

[acacha (sergi-tur)]

I confirm this bug.

[acacha (sergi-tur)]

...I try the catalan version and the same problem occurs.

[Jorge Suárez de Lis (ys)]

This bug has been there *for years*. We can't input "í" on cfdisk, so we can't save the changes on the partition.

To workaround this, you can launch cfdisk in English with the following command (notice we use sudo to do it as root):

LANGUAGE=en sudo cfdisk

[Mitchell (mitchellvc)]

Thanks Jorge, and now that Jaunty beta can't create bootable usb for some machines, i was trying to do it manually and found this ancient bug. please can someone fix it?

[Jorge Suárez de Lis (ys)]

This bug is still present in current lucid. Maybe someone should talk to upstream?

[Jorge Suárez de Lis (ys)]

I've reported it upstream http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/3141

[Jorge Suárez de Lis (ys)]

Fixed upstream in the Spanish language by replacing "sí" -> "si". Acacha, the problem is still present in catalan?

[Jorge Suárez de Lis (ys)]

FIxed upstream for all languages. Now cfdisk supports input of wide characters. We will probably see this appear on Maverick.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/3179

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

It seems this was fixed a while back.