Weather Indicator

indicator-weather mixes up languages

Bug #777732 reported by Christoph Buchner on 2011-05-05

This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Weather Indicator	Fix Released	Low	Joshua Tasker	Weather Indicator 13.05.28 "Rainy 5"

Bug Description

indicator-weather does not consistently respect language settings. I got an English language setting, but the rest is set to Austria (details below, and screenshot). In the indicator-weather menu, english and german are mixed.

Expected output: All the text should be in english, as per the LANG setting.

This is on 11.04, with indicator-weather 11.04.10+repack-0ubuntu2 (whoa, what a version string)
output of locale:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

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Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote on 2011-05-05:

Screenshot.png Edit (49.0 KiB, image/png)

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Panagiotis Skintzos (ph7) wrote on 2011-05-09:

Indeed there is a mix. The get_locale used LC_CTYPE, but we should really use the LANGUAGE (the language for menus and windows in Language support dialog) .
Note that for formatting numbers and time, the LC_NUMERIC and LC_TIME are used.

Changed in weather-indicator:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Panagiotis Skintzos (ph7) wrote on 2011-05-09:

locale_mixup.patch Edit (548 bytes, text/plain)

This patch should correct it

Changed in weather-indicator:
importance:	Undecided → Low
assignee:	nobody → Panagiotis Skintzos (ph7)

Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) on 2011-05-31

Changed in weather-indicator:
milestone:	none → backlog

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Sam_ (and-sam) wrote on 2011-06-13:

Still the case in Oneiric. Indicator-weather crashes constantly.
dpkg-reconfigure locales was already issued.

$ indicator-weather
(process:2270): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/indicator-weather", line 1724, in <module>
locale_name = locale.getlocale()[0].split('_')[0]
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Kann LC_ALL nicht auf die Standard-Lokale einstellen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
LANG=de
LANGUAGE=de:en
LC_CTYPE="de"
LC_NUMERIC="de"
LC_TIME="de"
LC_COLLATE="de"
LC_MONETARY="de"
LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER="de"
LC_NAME="de"
LC_ADDRESS="de"
LC_TELEPHONE="de"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de"
LC_ALL=

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fredtdtje (wfadvokaat) wrote on 2011-08-04:

Please see my information in my bug #820864, that I just marked as duplicate, after discovering this bug report.
The problem is not solved and appears different depending on the data source that is being uses (Yahoo! vs. Google).

$ locale

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

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fredtdtje (wfadvokaat) wrote on 2011-08-04:

In reaction to the original bug report:

Expected output is not "All the text should be in english, as per the LANG setting." but All text in English, as per the LANGUAGE setting. The LANG setting informs the system of the language that the user actively uses, whereas the LANGUAGE setting sets the language in which the system (and all applications) communicate with the user.

The problem persists on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty, in Weather Indicator 11.05.31 'Cloudy 8'

Panagiotis Skintzos (ph7) on 2012-08-04