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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <868149@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2011-10-05 17:24, Martin Pitt skrev:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson [2011-10-05 14:47 -0000]:
>> We currently derive locales from language denotations, such as 'es_ES'
>> or 'de', all the time.
> 
> But we should really avoid doing that, as it can never be correct for
> $LANG. It's fine for LC_MESSAGES and LC_CTYPE.

We don't do it for $LANG. $LANG is set from a separate UI (currently in
language-selector) that lists the available UTF-8 locales. So I think we
are agreed.

>> The main problem is that LANG represents regional formats in
>> Oneiric, not language.
> 
> $LANG has always been defined to specify a locale, not a language.
> This is neither Oneiric nor Ubuntu specific, but standard
> gettext/POSIX behaviour.
> 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html

I meant that LANG in Oneiric *contains a locale name* that represents
regional formats as opposed to a locale name that represents a
language/translation. So we are most likely agreed on this too. :)

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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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