Localization issue in BOINC manager

[Darren Peets]

Computer is located in South Korea, only language installed is British English. Deadline for tasks is displayed in Korean, remainder of interface is in English as desired. To my knowledge, the only other system localization settings that are aware of the computer's location are time zone and currency.

Kubuntu 13.10, boinc-manager 7.2.7+dfsg-1

It's been like this for a while, but started to annoy me. Priority is probably not high.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: boinc-manager 7.2.7+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 28 10:42:41 2014
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: boinc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-18 (160 days ago)

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

So you want boinc take the korean or the english locale?

because some messages (server side) can only be in english, because they are sent from the server (notices e.g.), and afair boinc takes the locale from the user and use this one.

the problem in that english "running" word is that the korean language is not fully translated
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/translate/ko/

maybe an help on boinc_loc or translate website can fix this lack of words.

However your version (the saucy one) is a little bit outdated, seems that the latest releases have the full language available, without no english fallbacks anymore in case of missing translation

[Darren Peets (dpeets)]

It's not supposed to be in Korean. I don't speak (much of) the language.

The language and all localization in my KDE installation are British English, and have been from the initial install. The exceptions are telling the computer that it is physically located in Korea, the time zone, and the default currency. All other software obeys this (or falls back to US English).

The only place I see Korean anywhere on the system is the date field in the BOINC manager. I don't want the Korean, and I'm fairly sure it shouldn't be there.

[Darren Peets (dpeets)]

This may be an upstream issue. I tried isolating which setting is responsible, and couldn't find it.

Changing the location, currency, and time zone to Germany/Euro/Berlin and the default language to US English, doing apt-get --reinstall install boinc-manager , then resetting X, didn't get rid of the Korean. For clarity, Korean is not an installed language. Only UK and now US English.

I downloaded BOINC 7.2.42 from the BOINC site, and installed it in a temporary directory. It does exactly the same thing (running client is still 7.2.7), with unwanted Korean in the Deadline field and nowhere else. The console says:
RPC error: unrecognized op: set_language

Let me know if there's anything else I should try doing, or any config files I should look at.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

I reported this on boinc_alpha, waiting for a feedback from upstream

[Darren Peets (dpeets)]

Actually, I just realized that Thunderbird is doing the same thing, which would suggest that it's something in KDE. I think I've seriously misdirected you.

On further searching through the OS:

Dolphin doesn't do this, it's English-only as expected
ls -l and date return some Korean characters (tried sh as well as bash)
The file-open dialogues in emacs24, firefox, acroread, gimp, have Korean characters in their dates.
The file-open dialogues Chromium, Showfoto, LibreOffice, Amarok, K3b are English-only as expected.

Since this would then not be BOINC-specific, I tried another search for duplicate bugs, and found 1072019:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/1072019

So I've most likely rediscovered a bug from late 2012...

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

I reassigned to launguage pack kde ko, hopefully korean maintainers knows the right place to assign better than me (I know this isn't the right package)