Trash output for LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 (probably all non-ASCII languages)

[kostyarin]

$ LANG=C snap whoami
email: -

$ echo $LANG
ru_RU.UTF-8

$ snap whoami
2018/12/05 00:28:38.375372 main.go:160: argument "abort"'s "<смена ID>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.375488 main.go:160: argument "ack"'s "<файл подтверждения>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.375690 main.go:160: argument "tasks"'s "<смена ID>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.375749 main.go:160: argument "create-key"'s "<имя ключа>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.375822 main.go:160: argument "create-user"'s "<отослать>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.375859 main.go:160: argument "delete-key"'s "<имя ключа>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.375970 main.go:160: argument "export-key"'s "<имя ключа>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376047 main.go:160: argument "find"'s "<запрос>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376131 main.go:160: argument "get"'s "<ключ>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376256 main.go:160: argument "interface"'s "<интерфейс>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376348 main.go:160: argument "known"'s "<тип подтверждения>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376369 main.go:160: argument "known"'s "<фильт заголовков>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376444 main.go:160: argument "login"'s "<отослать>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376564 main.go:160: argument "prepare-image"'s "<модель подтверждения>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376587 main.go:160: argument "prepare-image"'s "<корневая директория>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376711 main.go:160: argument "services"'s "<сервис>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376783 main.go:160: argument "logs"'s "<сервис>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376838 main.go:160: argument "start"'s "<сервис>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376892 main.go:160: argument "stop"'s "<сервис>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.376945 main.go:160: argument "restart"'s "<сервис>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.377015 main.go:160: argument "set"'s "<конфигурационное значение>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.377108 main.go:160: argument "sign-build"'s "<имя файла>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.377565 main.go:160: argument "wait"'s "<ключ>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/05 00:28:38.377664 main.go:160: argument "watch"'s "<смена ID>s" should be wrapped in <>s
email: -

$ echo $?
0

I've got this "should be wrapped in <>s" output for every snap command, if LANG is ru_RU.UTF-8.

$ LANG=C snap version
snap 2.36.1
snapd 2.36.1
series 16
ubuntu 18.10
kernel 4.18.0-11-generic

$ uname -a
Linux x556uq 4.18.0-11-generic #12-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 23 19:22:37 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Confirm. It's irritating.

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Another workaround:
sudo rm /usr/share/locale-langpack/ru/LC_MESSAGES/snappy.mo

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Or use LANG=C before any snap command

[kostyarin (k-i-r)]

Yep, and use the LANG=C before every apt command, since it uses the snap.

[kostyarin (k-i-r)]

Also, I can help edit the ru.po file to get success.

[kostyarin (k-i-r)]

Hm, probably this bug should be moved to snapd bugs. I'm not sure, but looks like...

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

I've fixed this in the following PR https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/6305

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

Apparently the message

argument "foo"'s "bar" should be wrapped in <>s

is ambiguous, and the ru translator has taken it to mean that it should look like literally "<bar>s" instead of "<bar>".

We'll update the message to say "should start with < and end with >".

We'll also add code to drop the s if it matches <.*>s, to accommodate this mistake. This is brittle but it'll stop the annoying messages.

Could one of you russian-speaking people kindly fix the translations, meanwhile, by working on
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/cosmic/+source/snapd/+pots/snappy/ru/+translate
?

(there's a lot more un-translated there also, hint hint).

[kostyarin (k-i-r)]

All "<foo>s" changed to "<foo>". In suggestions. Except this one https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/cosmic/+source/snapd/+pots/snappy/ru/34/+translate

By unknown reason it turns back and a suggestion disappears. I've tried it few times.

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

I fixed all strings with "s" in
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/cosmic/+source/snapd/+pots/snappy/ru/+translate

Tested at my PC. It OK

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Unfortunately our translator Artem Sierikov translated strings with "s" in all versions of snapd(((
For trunk series, Artful, Bionic, Cosmic, Yakkety, Zesty

I fixed for Cosmic. Should we fix for trunk and others?

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

It seems trunk is OK too

[Denis Denisov (denji0k-deactivatedaccount)]

$ lsb_release -rdc
Description: Ubuntu Disco Dingo (development branch)
Release: 19.04
Codename: disco

LANG=ru_UK.UTF-8 snap whoami
2018/12/23 .... main.go:160: argument "abort"'s "<смена ID>s" should be wrapped in <>s
2018/12/23 .... main.go:160: argument "ack"'s "<файл подтверждения>s" should be wrapped in <>s
......
email: -

[igor (takenp)]

$ lsb_release -rdc
Description: Ubuntu 18.10
Release: 18.10
Codename: cosmic

Got this .mo file reffered in this coment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1806761/comments/11

put it instead /usr/share/locale-langpack/ru/LC_MESSAGES/snappy.mo
and avoided all troubles.

I'd recommend to fix it in the distro repo as it is fixed in translation file ( I don't know how to do this)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it should be fixed in that version https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/2.37+19.04~pre1 (which is also being SRUed to older series)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Is that fixed now? It seems to work fine here