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Kubuntu - setting "Country or region" is ignored by applications

Bug #366285 reported by Tathosh
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speedcrunch (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Hello,

I have installed Kubuntu 9.04 64 bit with English language, but I want to have locale settings for Slovakia (so I get Slovak number and date formats). So I have changed "Country or region" setting to Slovakia. At first sight it seems, that everything is correctly set (in preview I see correct example of number and date formats), but at the end these setting are ignored by the applications. For example when I run OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet and I enter the date "31.12.2008" (which is Slovak date format), Spreadseet does not recognise this as date. Another example is when I enter 2,8 (Slovak decimal separator is ",") in SpeedCrunch, it is not recognised as a number. SpeedCrunch recognises only 2.8 as a number ("." is not Slovak decimal separator). Also when I enter decimal number by keyboard's numpad, it is using dot as decimal separator (again this is not correct).

So applications are using English regional setting despite the fact that I have set Slovakia in "Country or region" settings.

Thanks for your help.

Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi)
affects: ubuntu → kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu)
Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
affects: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) → openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

What is the output of 'locale' in a terminal?

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Tathosh (fedurco) wrote :

Hello,

the output of locale in terminal is:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

So it seems that regional settings in "Country or region" are not recognised by system.

I tried to edit /etc/default/locale file where I entered following lines (in order to get Slovak settings):

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sk_SK.UTF-8"

and the result was that OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet recognised coma as decimal separator (",") and also it typed coma when I pressed decimal separator on keyboard's numpad. But SpeedCrunch did not recognised coma as decimal separator (I had to use dot ".") and also when I pressed decimal separator on keyboard's numpad, the dot showed in SpeedCrunch.

Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) → meta-kde4 (Ubuntu)
Changed in meta-kde4 (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
Revision history for this message
dotancohen (dotancohen) wrote :

This upstream bug may be relevant:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197727

Revision history for this message
Felix Krull (fkrull) wrote :

Original problem is a (persisting) KDE issue; can't reproduce the later issue (after manually tweaking /etc/default/locale).

Changed in speedcrunch (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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