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Message #01084
[Bug 1204182] Re: setlocale.sh can break user-chosen locales and encodings
Same as #12, the invalid locale here is en_TW.UTF-8.
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Title:
setlocale.sh can break user-chosen locales and encodings
Status in “kde-runtime” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Country/Region & Language setting is very keen to write
~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh with the contents:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US:en
even when the Country is not United States of America.
To reproduce:
1. In Country/Region & Language setting, Country is United Kingdom (in
my case). Also note that ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh doesn't exist.
2. Make some change (I changed Short date format from DD/MM/YY to
YYYY-MM-DD) and click Apply.
3. Note that setlocale.sh has been written as above, with en_US
values.
This means that when KDE is restarted, all LC_* variables are
en_US.UTF-8 instead of the previous values of en_GB.UTF-8.
One workaround is to delete ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh after making the
required changes in System Settings.
Another workaround is to set the Preferred Language as well as making
the other required change (Preferred Languages was previously empty on
my system). Setting this to British English causes
~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh to be written with the contents:
export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Now there's an extreme demonstration of the problem. With Country set
to United Kingdom, clicking Defaults subtly changes the Country to
System Country (United Kingdom). Clicking Apply then changes the
contents of setlocale.sh from the en_GB values to en_US values, even
though other settings (Money, etc.) are appropriate for the UK.
Expected behaviour:
~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh should not be written if it doesn't exist and it's not
necessary to write it (LC_* variables are set elsewhere).
Originally reported to KDE at
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322688. KDE developer says file
isn't written by KDE, so must be due to distribution-specific patch.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: systemsettings 4:4.10.5-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 23 17:47:07 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/systemsettings
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-01-02 (568 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kde-workspace
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-27 (87 days ago)
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