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kde-workspace package

LANGUAGE is set incorrectly in ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh

Bug #1423995 reported by Leon Maurer
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kde-workspace (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

(I origionally submitted this bug to KDE, but I was told it was a Kubuntu problem: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342288 . This also may be related to bug #1322968)

I was playing around with the prefered languages setting, and I briefly put Russian in the list along with American English. However, even when I removed Russian, Russian still showed up all over the place. I found that the LANGUAGE environment variable was set to "en:ru:en" (which sometimes overrode the fact that LANG was correctly set to "en_US.UTF-8"). After much searching, I found that LANGUAGE was being set to "en:ru:en" in ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh:

$ cat ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh
export LANGUAGE=en:ru:en
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8

So, LANG is being set correctly, but LANGUAGE is not.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: systemsettings 4:4.11.12-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-30.40-generic 3.16.7-ckt3
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri Feb 20 11:38:13 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/systemsettings
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-14 (798 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kde-workspace
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-11-18 (93 days ago)

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Leon Maurer (leon-n-maurer) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in kde-workspace (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaubitz) wrote :

Hi Leon!

I'm attaching a patch against the current version of the kde-workspace package in Debian and Ubuntu which adds a language selector to kdm. This allows you to select the language for the session at login time and with the hvelp of a few lines in your Xsession file, you are getting the proper environment variables set for your preferred language.

With the patch applied, kdm will set the environment variable KDM_LANG according to the selection you made in the popup menu on the greeter screen. Just add the following lines to /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsession to use the value of KDM_LANG to set the environment variables for LANG, LANGUAGE and LC_ALL:

if [ -n "$KDM_LANG" ] ; then
    LANGUAGE="$KDM_LANG"
    LANG="$KDM_LANG"
    LC_ALL="$KDM_LANG"
    export LANGUAGE
    export LANG
    export LC_ALL
fi

Please note that the list of languages available in the selector is currently hard-coded in kdm/kfrontend/kgreeter.cpp.

For more details, see my detailed explanation in the corresponding bug report in Debian [1].

Adrian

> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789689

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "Patch to implement a language selector in kdm" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issues please contact him.]

tags: added: patch
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Leon Maurer (leon-n-maurer) wrote :

Thanks! FWIW, I'm now running Kubuntu 15.04 with KDE 5. I haven't tried to reproduce the bug, but I can do that if it'd be useful.

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