Doesn't set up the locale properly

[Uqbar]

In /etc/default/locale I have this line
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
In ~/.bashrc I have this line:
export LC_COLLATE="C"
In the System Settings-->Locale-->Country/Region & Language I have the following:
Country: Italy
Languages: American English, Italian (in this order)
Numbers: "." for thousands and "," for decimals
Money: EURO
Calendar: Gregorian
Date and Time: HH:MM:SS
Other: Page size: A4; Measurement system: metric; Byte size: IEC units.

In a console (no X and thus no KDE) I have these variables set:
LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
LC_COLLATE='C'
all other locale related variables are unset. This is the expected behavior.

In Konsole (KDE) I have these variables:

LANG='en_IT.UTF-8'
LANGUAGE='en:it:en'
LC_NUMERIC='en_IT.UTF-8'
LC_COLLATE='C'
LC_TIME='en_IT.UTF-8'
LC_MONETARY='en_IT.UTF-8'
LC_PAPER='en_IT.UTF-8'
LC_NAME='en_IT.UTF-8'
LC_ADDRESS='en_IT.UTF-8'
LC_TELEPHONE='en_IT.UTF-8'
LC_MEASUREMENT='en_IT.UTF-8'
LC_IDENTIFICATION='en_IT.UTF-8'

which clearly show an improperly set up locale.
For example within Konsole terminal I cannot input accented vowels from the Italian keyboard.
While I can do it from the non-KDE console.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: kubuntu-settings-desktop 1:14.04ubuntu15.1
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-031900-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Feb 18 15:17:04 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-12 (37 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: kubuntu-settings
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

For example, when I start the PostgreSQL client I get this:

[enzo@Feynman ~] psql tmp1
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en:it:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_PAPER = "en_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_ADDRESS = "en_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_MONETARY = "en_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "en_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "en_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_COLLATE = "C",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_TIME = "en_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "en_IT.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_IT.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

The error happens in this file:

/home/enzo/.kde/env/setlocale.sh

That I presume gets created (the wrong way) whenever I change the KDE locale settings.

That file contains currently these lines:

export LANG=en_IT.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en:it:en
export LC_NUMERIC=en_IT.UTF-8
export LC_TIME=en_IT.UTF-8
export LC_MONETARY=en_IT.UTF-8
export LC_PAPER=en_IT.UTF-8
export LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_IT.UTF-8
export LC_NAME=en_IT.UTF-8
export LC_ADDRESS=en_IT.UTF-8
export LC_TELEPHONE=en_IT.UTF-8
export LC_MEASUREMENT=it_IT.UTF-8

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Konstantinos Filios (konfilios)]

I have the exact same problem with accents in vowels when I use the following "custom" locale: en_GR.UTF-8 . If I use el_GR.UTF-8 (greek language, country Greece) everything is ok. But if I switch to "en" language (because I find the UI easier in english language), then I lose accented vowels (i.e. in libreoffice)

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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