Bug#320129: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#320129: /bin/su: Incorret encoding used in error message

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Peter Karlsson (peter at softwolves.pp.se):
> Package: login
> Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge5
> Severity: minor
> File: /bin/su
> 
> The localized Swedish error message from su is always output using UTF-8
> encoding, even when the terminal does not support it, which makes the
> message display incorrectly:

(using gnome-terminal in ISO-8859-1)

bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/bf-utf-source> export LANGUAGE=sv_SE
bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/bf-utf-source> export LANG=sv_SE
bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/bf-utf-source> export LC_ALL=sv_SE

(OK, overkill but well...)

bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/bf-utf-source> su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
Tyvärr.


.../... switching gnome-terminal in UTF-8

bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/bf-utf-source> export LANGUAGE=sv_SE.UTF-8
bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/bf-utf-source> export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/bf-utf-source> export LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8

(overkill again)

bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/bf-utf-source>
bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/bf-utf-source> su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
Tyvärr.


I really fail to see the problem, actually...