Log files and error messages are translated sometimes

[Dustin Kirkland ]

Binary package hint: apport

Apport drives me crazy as an upstream developer and package maintainer when the logs it attaches are in the native language of the reporter.

I understand that the reporter should see their error messages in their own native locale, but bug reports titled or logged in other languages are very difficult for me to deal with.

Perhaps this is a Launchpad wishlist item, as it might have the wherewithall to dynamically translate bug reports, but Babelfish isn't cutting it.

:-Dustin

[Eleanor Berger (intellectronica)]

How does this bug manifest itself in the Launchpad bug tracker?

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Perhaps this is a Launchpad wishlist item, as it might have the wherewithall to dynamically translate bug reports, but Babelfish isn't cutting it.

[Eleanor Berger (intellectronica)]

Right, but there's nothing to do about this problem in the Launchpad bug tracker itself.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Since Launchpad has access to so many translations in its databases, I thought it might be able to process these error logs in a way that I can work with them as a developer.

If Launchpad doesn't want to solve this problem, will Apport?

:-Dustin

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Apport only collect logs in this case, so Dpkg and others Debian tools should use LANG=C when generating the reports.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Cool, thanks Marco.

:-Dustin

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for apport (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]