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Manichean · 10-24-2010, 07:10 AM

I noticed an issue with the german translation of Calibre's CLI tools. Whenever an Umlaut (ä, ö, ü, and what are those things called in english?) is present, the text gets mangled. For example (from the help text of calibredb):

Code:

Wann immer Sie Argumente an calibredb.exe weitergeben, die Leerzeichen beinhalte
n, setzen Sie diese Argumente in AnfÃ¼hrungsstriche.

This should be:

Code:

Wann immer Sie Argumente an calibredb.exe weitergeben, die Leerzeichen beinhalte
n, setzen Sie diese Argumente in Anführungsstriche.

To me, this looks like the CLI tools use a different codepage than Calibre itself does, or Python on the command line doesn't support Umlaute.

Is this something that can or should be fixed in the code, or should I edit the CLI translation strings to not contain any Umlaute?

Edit to add: I looked for the specific strings in Launchpad, they're correct there.

10-24-2010, 07:10 AM	#1
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	Issue with german translation of CLI tools I noticed an issue with the german translation of Calibre's CLI tools. Whenever an Umlaut (ä, ö, ü, and what are those things called in english?) is present, the text gets mangled. For example (from the help text of calibredb): Code: Wann immer Sie Argumente an calibredb.exe weitergeben, die Leerzeichen beinhalte n, setzen Sie diese Argumente in AnfÃ¼hrungsstriche. This should be: Code: Wann immer Sie Argumente an calibredb.exe weitergeben, die Leerzeichen beinhalte n, setzen Sie diese Argumente in Anführungsstriche. To me, this looks like the CLI tools use a different codepage than Calibre itself does, or Python on the command line doesn't support Umlaute. Is this something that can or should be fixed in the code, or should I edit the CLI translation strings to not contain any Umlaute? Edit to add: I looked for the specific strings in Launchpad, they're correct there.