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Subject:    [systemsettings] [Bug 373115] New: Incorrect locale values in ~/.config/plasma* and environment vari
From:       Maximiliano Curia <bugzilla_noreply () kde ! org>
Date:       2016-11-30 16:02:21
Message-ID: bug-373115-17878 () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373115

            Bug ID: 373115
           Summary: Incorrect locale values in ~/.config/plasma* and
                    environment variables
           Product: systemsettings
           Version: 5.8.4
          Platform: Debian unstable
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: kcm_formats
          Assignee: sebas@kde.org
          Reporter: maxy@debian.org
  Target Milestone: ---

This is a forward of the bug reported in the Debian bug tracker:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845788

Currently the values used to fill the combos in the formats kcm come from a:
 QLocale::matchingLocales(QLocale::AnyLanguage, QLocale::AnyScript,
QLocale::AnyCountry);

Sadly this includes values that are not supported by the system locales
libraries, as qt uses it's own locales database. Even more, this disregards the
fact that most users have only a subset of the locales generated (see the
output of locales -a to obtain a list of the currently available locales).

The Debian report has been reassigned to the qt maintainers, and it might be
that the issue can be addressed on the qt side. As per suggestion of Kai Uwe
Broulik via irc I'm forwarding the issue here to raise the issue awareness.

The original report from "Jeroen N. Witmond" reads:

I live in the Netherlands but I prefer to communicate with my computer systems
in English.  I have answered the related questions 
during the installation of Stretch Alpha 8 accordingly.

Now a number of applications complain about the locale. An example is:
jeroen@zandbak:~$ man ssh-keygen
man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

The $LC_* variables appear to not be set.

jeroen@zandbak:~$ echo $LANG
en_NL.UTF-8
jeroen@zandbak:~$ echo $LANGUAGE
en_US:en

Some digging showed that en_NL.UTF-8 is an incorrect value, and that it is 
set in files:
jeroen@zandbak:~/.config$ grep en_NL *
plasma-locale-settings.sh:export LANG=en_NL.UTF-8
plasma-localerc:LANG=en_NL.UTF-8

Questions:
1. Can I overwrite the values in these files manually, or do I need to use some
dialog?
2. How to keep other users from stubling on this problem?

Regards, jeroen.


Happy hacking,

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