David Planella wrote: > While the patch fixes the issue where Xsession was writing a LANGUAGE > variable with incorrect syntax, now we've got a situation where: > > • GDM can only write LANG (and the LC_xx categories) > • language-selector can write LANGUAGE > • That effectively means that the language one selects in GDM is useless, > since LANGUAGE has precedence > • In some applications LANG (or LC_xxx) is used, though. > > As a test, in my Catalan session I logged out, chose German as the > language in GDM, logged back in and noticed: > > • Most applications are in Catalan > • The calendar is half Catalan, half German -> bug in the calendar code > • Firefox is in German -> bug in firefox
> $ locale > LANG=de_DE.utf8 > language=ca...@valencia:ca_ES:ca:en_GB:en > LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8" > LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.utf8" > LC_TIME="de_DE.utf8" > LC_COLLATE="de_DE.utf8" > LC_MONETARY="de_DE.utf8" > LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.utf8" > LC_PAPER="de_DE.utf8" > LC_NAME="de_DE.utf8" > LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.utf8" > LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.utf8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.utf8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.utf8" > LC_ALL= > > This can be potentially very confusing to users switching locales. I agree. Language-selector has code to generate the LANGUAGE variable out of any given LANG locale code. It uses the file /usr/share/language-selector/data/languagelist to find fallbacks for LANGUAGE and if the specific locale is not mentioned there, just strips the encoding and country code from the LANG value. I think this code and the fallback list should be placed into a separate library, so that it can be used by gdm and ubiquity/debian-installer to set the LANGUAGE variable correctly. I can split out the code from language-selector and create a command-line interface to query the mapping. If you guys agree with that, can we get this done until beta2? -- /etc/gdm/Xsession breaks LANGUAGE https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
