Edubuntu LTSP Client displays taskbar in wrong language

here is the reference to a mail thread:

 http://<email address hidden>/index.html#00558

the starting post was:

<quote>
hello everybody,

following problem. I have a computer that runs the ltsp server. my wife has an
account on the machine in italian language. mostly everything is in italian:
menues, open office, etc. now when she logs on to the server the taskbar is in
italian.

when she uses a different computer, boots over the network, selects italian and
then logs on, the menus are still italian, but the (top) taskbar is in english.
strange isn't it?
</quote>

after some discussion, it turned out, that there is a problem in the (python) file:

/opt/ltsp/i386/usr/sbin/ldm

the lang_command was not properly constructed resulting in (excerpt from hte command "locale" on the client):

LANGUAGE=it_IT.UTF-8.UTF-8 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8.UTF-8 LTSP_CLIENT="server" ESPEAKER=192.168.0.53:16001

as you see, ".UTF-8" is duplicated, causing the problem. changing line 170 to:

lang_command = 'LC_ALL='+lang+' LANGUAGE='+lang+ ' LANG='+lang

... solved the problem. the other locales also worked fine, both on the server and on the clients booting to the server.

uwe geercken