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RE: cygwin started speaking German today


Charles Wilson wrote:

>On 8/30/2011 6:18 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
>> Starting with today's update, cygwin started speaking German:
>...
>> Ok, the PC is in Germany, but none of my environment
>> variables have a 'de' inside.
>
>Hmmm.
>
>> Any hints?
>
>Try rolling back
>  libiconv, libiconv2, and libcharset
>from 1.14-1 to 1.13.1-2, and then try again.

libiconv and libcharset are not installed,
so I only rolled back libiconv2: no effect.

> If that doesn't work, also roll back
>  gettext, gettext-devel, libintl8, libgettextpo0, libasprintf0
> from 0.18.1.1-1 to 0.17-11 (while ensuring that setup doesn't RE-upgrade
> libiconv!)

only gettext is installed, the others not, but ... BINGO!

$ mkdir -v x0
mkdir: created directory `x0'

So gettext is the culprit. Need more?

Bye,
Berny

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