[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#461022: Bug#461022: description doesn't render in aptitude

[Christian Perrier]

Tomas Pospisek a écrit :
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 
>> Quoting Tomas Pospisek (tpo at sourcepole.ch):
>>
>>>> The file *is* UTF-8 from what I see.
>>>
>>> I'm looking at it through konsole, which runs bash. Konsole's encoding
>>> is set to "Default". If I set it to UTF8, it still doesn't render.
>>
>> It does, in the exact same conditions on my system.
> 
> I did this:
> 
> $ apt-cache show ttf-ecolier-lignes-court > /tmp/k
> $ vim /tmp/k
> 
> and clearly, the problem here is *not* the displaying/decoding/the
> fonts. The problem is apt-cache, since if I look at the produced output
> in /tmp/k it's still cut off at:
> 
>  "Description: cursive roman font (with r"
> 
> So possibly apt-cache and aptitude are using the same method for
> extracting the relevant fields out of the Packages file and fail in the

They're using the apt libraries....