Translation of errors

[Roch Auburtin <ra...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I try to get all error messages translated in French.
I use svn version 1.6.4 on Ubuntu server and access the repositories 
through Apache + mod_dav_svn

I have compiled svn from source and compiled the french .mo file, then I 
placed the .mo file in the correct place.
I also set the language as follow:

     export LC_ALL='fr_FR.UTF-8'

To get error messages, I committed a working folder which was not 
up-to-date and I obtained:

svn ci -m 'test delete'
Suppression dir1
svn: Échec de la propagation (commit), détails :
svn: Item '/dir1' is out of date

As you can see, only a part of the errors are translated.
The message "Item '/dir1' is out of date" is not translated.

I guessed that I had this problem because this error is raised by the 
code running on the server.

So I tried to set the language in the envvars file of apache such as:

export LANG='fr_FR.UTF-8'
export LC_ALL='fr_FR.UTF-8'

I restarted apache but I got the same pb.
I googled to find a solution to this problem and it seems that the 
problem is related to the mod_dav_svn code that don't use the defined 
locale.

Could you confirm that I am right and do you know a solution to this 
problem?

Re: Translation of errors

[Stefan Sperling <st...@elego.de>]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 01:43:25PM +0100, Roch Auburtin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to get all error messages translated in French.
> I use svn version 1.6.4 on Ubuntu server and access the repositories
> through Apache + mod_dav_svn
> 
> I have compiled svn from source and compiled the french .mo file,
> then I placed the .mo file in the correct place.
> I also set the language as follow:
> 
>     export LC_ALL='fr_FR.UTF-8'
> 
> To get error messages, I committed a working folder which was not
> up-to-date and I obtained:
> 
> svn ci -m 'test delete'
> Suppression dir1
> svn: Échec de la propagation (commit), détails :
> svn: Item '/dir1' is out of date
> 
> As you can see, only a part of the errors are translated.
> The message "Item '/dir1' is out of date" is not translated.
> 
> I guessed that I had this problem because this error is raised by
> the code running on the server.
> 
> So I tried to set the language in the envvars file of apache such as:
> 
> export LANG='fr_FR.UTF-8'
> export LC_ALL='fr_FR.UTF-8'
> 
> I restarted apache but I got the same pb.
> I googled to find a solution to this problem and it seems that the
> problem is related to the mod_dav_svn code that don't use the
> defined locale.
> 
> Could you confirm that I am right and do you know a solution to this
> problem?

All apache httpd modules run in the C locale. This is a security feature
of apache httpd. There is currently no way to override this in Subversion's
mod_dav_svn. See issue #2487, "mod_dav_svn and locales fail to play nicely
together": http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2487