Ubuntu
eglibc package

en is ignored as first value in LANGUAGE

Bug #1247802 reported by Gabor Vas
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
eglibc (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
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Bug Description

i use 13.10 kubuntu on a Desktop machine. I added 4 languages to System settings>Locale (in order: British English, American English, Portuguese, French, Hungarian) and terminal applications and output language changed to Portuguese, I cannot really set it back).
Super annoying.
kde-workspace:
  Instalado: 4:4.11.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidato: 4:4.11.2-0ubuntu1
  Tabela de Versão:
 *** 4:4.11.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

env | grep LANG
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=en_US
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:pt:fr:hu:en

env | grep LC
LC_PAPER=hu_HU.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=hu_HU.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=hu_HU.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=hu_HU.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=hu_HU.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=hu_HU.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=hu_HU.UTF-8
LC_TIME=hu_HU.UTF-8
LC_NAME=hu_HU.UTF-8

Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
summary: - adding langues to locale changes terminal output language
+ language KCM sets incorrect LANGUAGE
affects: kde-workspace (Ubuntu) → kde-runtime (Ubuntu)
Changed in kde-runtime (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Gabor Vas (cognac-gamma) wrote : Re: language KCM sets incorrect LANGUAGE

As it was really annoying I removed all added languages and Konsole output language changed back only after shut down but not reboot.

Revision history for this message
Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

Fixed for 14.04

env |grep LANG; env |grep LC
LANGUAGE=en:pt:fr:hu:en
GDM_LANG=en_US
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Changed in kde-runtime (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

So, as it turns out eglibc is simply broken.

LANGUAGE=en:foo will almost always use foo. Also very intersting is that if you put a conditional breakpoint on __GI_getenv it wills suddenly start to use english instead of foo.

affects: kde-runtime (Ubuntu) → eglibc (Ubuntu)
Changed in eglibc (Ubuntu):
assignee: Harald Sitter (apachelogger) → nobody
importance: Low → Medium
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
summary: - language KCM sets incorrect LANGUAGE
+ en is ignored as first value in LANGUAGE
Revision history for this message
Arthur Schiwon (blizzz) wrote :

any en is ignored, i.e. en:en:pt won't work either and neither does en:en:xf:en:pt:en (not existing xf is correctly ignored)

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