xchat-gnome only work with LC_ALL=C

[Rodrigo Linfati]

Binary package hint: xchat-gnome

rlinfati@virtu:~$ locale
LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_CL.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

rlinfati@virtu:~$ xchat-gnome
XChat CRITICAL *** default event text failed to build!
Cancelado
rlinfati@virtu:~$ LC_ALL=es_ES.utf8 xchat-gnome
XChat CRITICAL *** default event text failed to build!
Cancelado
rlinfati@virtu:~$ LC_ALL=es_US.utf8 xchat-gnome
XChat CRITICAL *** default event text failed to build!
Cancelado

but, with LC_ALL=C xchat-gnome and LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 xchat-gnome work ok

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Rodrigo Linfati (rlinfati)]

attached is a backtrace of xchat-gnome

you need more info?

thanks

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

looks like something broken in the translation side.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Yeah, this problem with xchat appears from time to time, usually, this is caused by a bad c-format string usage in a translation.

This affects 8.10 and latest 9.04 development version.

Removing /usr/share/locale-langpack/es/LC_MESSAGES/xchat-gnome.mo allows you to start it again from the menu, in English, but at least you don't need to do any 'black magic voodoo' until it's fixed.

I'm assigning this to the Spanish translation team.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Ok, this is another bug report that the Ubuntu Spanish translators are going to ignore due to their insane mailing list configuration:

No está autorizado a enviar mensajes a esta lista de correo y su
mensaje ha sido rechazado automáticamente, Si piensa que sus mensajes
están siendo rechazados por error,
 contacte con el propietaro de la lista en
<email address hidden>.

The English translation:

You are not allowed to post messages to this mailing list and your
message was automatically rejected, if you think that your messages
are being rejected by mistake, contact the owner of the list in
<email address hidden>.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

I've just fixed a bug in the format of one string. Now it works. I've uploaded the new .po file.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Confirmed, it works again. Thank you!!

Would be possible to get this backported to Intrepid? It had the same problem before I switched to Jaunty.