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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

This is fallout from bug 864618: In that bug we disabled the
set_language() call as it invalidly sets $LANG to the "Language"
property of accountsservice, which cannot work because $LANG is a locale
and "Language" is only a language name.

However, set_language() also sets the $LANG variable from ~/.dmrc, which
we need for backwards compatibility and derivatives.

So what should happen is that all the code which does the `locale -a`
guesswork needs to be dropped, and only these parts remain which
evaluate ~/.dmrc.

Please see http://pad.ubuntu.com/locale-handling for details.

** Affects: lightdm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
         Status: Triaged

** Also affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric)
    Milestone: None => oneiric-updates

** Description changed:

  This is fallout from bug 864618: In that bug we disabled the
  set_language() call as it invalidly sets $LANG to the "Language"
  property of accountsservice, which cannot work because $LANG is a locale
  and "Language" is only a language name.
  
  However, set_language() also sets the $LANG variable from ~/.dmrc, which
  we need for backwards compatibility and derivatives.
  
  So what should happen is that all the code which does the `locale -a`
  guesswork needs to be dropped, and only these parts remain which
  evaluate ~/.dmrc.
+ 
+ Please see http://pad.ubuntu.com/locale-handling for details.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/868149

Title:
  Need to set $LANG from .dmrc for backwards compatibility

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  This is fallout from bug 864618: In that bug we disabled the
  set_language() call as it invalidly sets $LANG to the "Language"
  property of accountsservice, which cannot work because $LANG is a
  locale and "Language" is only a language name.

  However, set_language() also sets the $LANG variable from ~/.dmrc,
  which we need for backwards compatibility and derivatives.

  So what should happen is that all the code which does the `locale -a`
  guesswork needs to be dropped, and only these parts remain which
  evaluate ~/.dmrc.

  Please see http://pad.ubuntu.com/locale-handling for details.

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