This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.188.1
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language-selector (0.188.1) bionic-proposed; urgency=medium
* LanguageSelector/ImConfig.py:
Prevent crash if LC_CTYPE has a value which Python does not
understand (LP: #1772237).
* debian/control:
Drop o
Indeed fixes the problem.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1772237
Title:
Language support quits immediately after starting
Status in language-selector packag
Verified the test case with version 0.188.1 of language-
selector-{common,gnome} from bionic-proposed.
** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-bionic
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I was actually hesitating whether or not it makes sense to get this fix
into bionic. Yes, the fix is legit and I think this is how it should be
in language-selector from the beginning - an invalid locale string
should not cause a crash but should be handled as you proposed. I was a
bit worried sinc
This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.189
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language-selector (0.189) cosmic; urgency=medium
* LanguageSelector/ImConfig.py:
Prevent crash if LC_CTYPE has a value which Python does not
understand (LP: #1772237).
* debian/control:
Drop obsolete X-Pyt
** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+
+ When Ubuntu is installed with a locale name which Python does not
+ understand, e.g. en_IL, Language Support crashes when you try to launch
+ it. This is really a bug which should be fixed in the installer (bug
+ #1646260). Awaiting the installer fix, this p
Thanks for your report!
Right, Python is the culprit; more precisely python and glibc have
different ideas about what's a correct locale name.
Probably your /etc/default/locale file includes this line:
LANG=en_IL
To fix this for yourself, open the file for editing and change that line
to:
LANG
After some research, it seems like a Python bug. I can reproduce the
same problem by running the python3 interpreter:
Python 3.6.5 (default, Apr 1 2018, 05:46:30)
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
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>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(lo
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