Hello all, Trying to translate some of the entries in /etc/X11/xdm/archlinux/Xresources to Italian I get strange results. Xlogin*greeting:Benvenuti to Salome works OK. But Xlogin*namePrompt:Nome d'utente\040: Xlogin*passwdPrompt:Parola d'ordine\040: just give me the defaults. I tried replacing all spaces with \040, same result. I also tried enclosing the text in double quotes, but then the quotes are printed as well. So what is the correct syntax ? Another strange thing is that on this system a failed login does not display the 'Incorrect' message but restarts xdm immediately. On another system (same version, installed or upgraded the same day) this works... Any help will be appreciated ! Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
On 21-02-10 00:34, fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:
Hello all,
Trying to translate some of the entries in
/etc/X11/xdm/archlinux/Xresources to Italian I get strange results. [...] Xlogin*namePrompt:Nome d'utente\040: Xlogin*passwdPrompt:Parola d'ordine\040:
just give me the defaults.
Looking at this from a shell perspective, i'd say it has a problem with the "'" (single quote) char. In some programminglanguages you can escape it with a "\", i'm not sure about this file, though. But maybe you could try that. Your namePrompt would become: Xlogin*namePrompt:Nome d\'utente\040: But maybe you need the nummerical code for it. HTH, HAND mvg, Guus
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:46:31PM +0100, Guus Snijders wrote:
On 21-02-10 00:34, fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:
Hello all,
Trying to translate some of the entries in
/etc/X11/xdm/archlinux/Xresources to Italian I get strange results. [...] Xlogin*namePrompt:Nome d'utente\040: Xlogin*passwdPrompt:Parola d'ordine\040:
just give me the defaults.
Looking at this from a shell perspective, i'd say it has a problem with the "'" (single quote) char. In some programminglanguages you can escape it with a "\", i'm not sure about this file, though. But maybe you could try that.
Your namePrompt would become: Xlogin*namePrompt:Nome d\'utente\040:
That doesn't work. It works only if both the space and the ' are written as octal: Nome\040d\047utente:\040 This is strange, as normally no escapes are required in xrdb values. The man page explicitly mentions 'any character except non-escaped newline', and that is also my experience when using e.g. ~/.Xresources. Normally leading spaces are stripped, trailing ones are not, and there's no further translation. The problem seems to be typical to xdm, doing its own processing on the string supplied by the xrdb. OTOH, the fixed 'Password:' is probably the result of this prompt being taken from PAM rather than from the resources. I've not yet found out how to change it there. Setting an Italian locale doesn't affect it. Thanks for your reply, ciao -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
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