[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/1] always accept untranslated answers 'Y' and 'N'

[Christian Hesse]

Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer at archlinux.org> on Fri, 2016/11/11 21:23:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 at 21:15:48, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > From: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
> > 
> > 'YES' translates to 'JA' in German, thus answer 'J' is expected for
> > positive answer. This changes the behaviour to always accept 'Y'
> > and 'N', in addition to the translated values.
>
> Not sure whether it is a problem in practice but what happens if "N" is
> translated to "Y" in some language? Do we really want to accept if the
> user enters "Y" in that case?

A valid point...
Does such a language exist?

All my systems are configured with English locale, except my wife's and my
mother's one. My blind typing for pacman commands breaks there. :-p

Well, possibly I should just set the root account to English locale... :D
-- 
main(a){char*c=/*    Schoene Gruesse                         */"B?IJj;MEH"
"CX:;",b;for(a/*    Best regards             my address:    */=0;b=c[a++];)
putchar(b-1/(/*    Chris            cc -ox -xc - && ./x    */b/42*2-3)*42);}
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