Bugzilla – Bug 663
Minor error in German translation
Last modified: 2015-02-09 15:14:22 MST
I noticed that when running an Application with sudo and using a German locale, the password field lacks a space (" ") after the colons, e.g.: sudo foo Passwort:****** instead it should be: sudo foo Passwort: ******
This is not actually an error in the translation as the English string also lacks a space after the colon. Historically, there was no space after the Unix Password: prompt. This wasn't really a problem as echo was disabled during password entry. However, I can see how this would be a bit ugly when pwfeedback is enabled in sudoers (which enables the stars on input). I'll probably add the space early in the sudo 1.8.12 release cycle which should give the translators plenty of time to make the change,
Hm, sounds reasonable but actually I cannot confirm this: sudo foo Passwort:***** LANG=C sudo foo Password: ***** And when using "su" there's a break inbetween, too. If you look closely at the cursor position with the stars diabled, it can also be noticed. It's weird that our results do not match... Could you reproduce again to be sure?
You can verify this yourself in the sudoers de.po file or see http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/file/2dd4e808f69f/plugins/sudoers/po/de.po The reason you see the space after Password: in the C locale is that sudo uses the default PAM prompt when the password prompt is either "Password:" or "Password: ". On your system, the PAM password prompt includes the space, as also see with su.
Ah damn, makes sense now! Yeah I think it would be reasonable to add the space. Thanks for the explanation! :)
Sudo 1.8.12 uses a Password: prompt with a trailing space.