Qt4 applications show wrong number format, making them unusable

Hi!
I'm not a locale expert, nor I have ever heard of the kurdish locale.

I'm wondering if you can try a more recent version of scribus, 1.4.4, available in more recent versions of ubuntu (since utopic, 14.10).

This actually seems to be a Qt problem, since it appears in several Qt based applications.

Then please test a more recent version of ubuntu, with new version of QT. better of all should to try out the current development version, with qt 5.4.

I will, but I sure would like to see this fixed in this LTS version. I filed bug 1434874, actually against qtcore-l10n, but seems I made a mistake there.

Maybe this should be reported upstream in the Qt bug tracker if its a bug in Qt4?

Created upstream bug for Qt: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-45168

As a work-around, you can try to set LC_NUMERIC=C in your environment — that should help.

The kurdish locale was added back in Qt 5.5 (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/109166/), and the problem would hopefully be otherwise too in Qt 5.

It is possible to test Qt 5.5 currently with Ubuntu 15.10 with https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/QtTesting

Qt 5.5 targets to the next release cycle, hopefully in November.

This bug was fixed in the package qtbase-opensource-src - 5.5.1+dfsg-6ubuntu4

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qtbase-opensource-src (5.5.1+dfsg-6ubuntu4) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Update symbols for s390x.

 -- Timo Jyrinki <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:35:46 +0000

qtbase-opensource-src (5.5.1+dfsg-6ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/enable-tests.patch:
    - Replace the non-DFSG-free RFC files with public domain content.
    - Adjust tests to the new files.
    (LP: #1522442)
  * debian/copyright: mention the replacement.
  * Switch to opt-in for architectures to run tests on.

 -- Timo Jyrinki <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:02:11 +0000

qtbase-opensource-src (5.5.1+dfsg-6ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=high

  * Skip largefile test on s390x too, in addition to amd64.
  * Make tests to keep going till the end with -k.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Dec 2015 16:54:28 +0000

qtbase-opensource-src (5.5.1+dfsg-6ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release. (LP: #1437206) (LP: #1450137) (LP: #1474313)
    (LP: #1470700) (LP: #1504631) (LP: #1423659) (LP: #1474775) (LP: #1508945)
  * Replace load_testability_from_env_var.patch with upstreamed
    Add-environment-variable-support-for-testability-lib.patch
  * Drop patches in upstream:
    - Correct-typo-in-the-Gujarati-openType-identififer.patch
  * Rebase enable-tests.patch. Disable one failing QtWidgets test.
  * Build depend on GStreamer 1.0 and add a configure option for it.
  * Update symbols.
  * Mark/unmark private symbols.
  * Replace two Ubuntu patches with upstreamed patches:
    - Drop disable-generic-plugin-when-others-available.patch, replace with
      Add-an-option-to-skip-the-generic-bearer-engine.patch
    - Drop qopenglframebufferobject_powervrworkaround.patch, replace with
      Blacklist-PowerVR-Rogue-G6200-v1.3-from-supporting-B.patch
  * debian/patches/Make-sure-networkAccessibilityChanged-is-emitted.patch:
    - Include a network fix from Qt 5.5 branch (merged after 5.5.1)
      (LP: #1470700)
  * debian/patches/Use-Node-name-if-Node-logicalModuleName-is-empty-for.patch:
    - Fix a qdoc issue (LP: #1447182)
  * Remove disable_overlay_scrollbars.diff as overlay scrollbars were dropped.
  * debian/patches/Prefer-QT_PLUGIN_PATH-over-compiled-in-paths.patch:
    - Backport. Prefer QT_PLUGIN_PATH over compiled-in paths (LP: #1519927)
  * debian/patches/Fix-crash-on-exit-caused-by-QStringLiterals.patch
    - Backport. Fix a crasher on exit (LP: #1436973)
  * Replace our workaround for font rendering with new backported upstream
    patches:
    - Add debian/patches/Fix-falsely-reported-style-for-fallback-font.patch
    - Add debian/patches/Remove-historical-4-padding-in-QFontEngine-alphaMapF.patch
    - Remove debian/patches/enable_fonts_always_smoothly.patch
      (LP: #1475205)

 -- Timo Jyrinki <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Dec 2015 06:16:35 +0000