Unable to set Serbian as Language
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson | ||
Disco |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson |
Bug Description
[Impact]
The Serbian language items, both the Cyrillic and the Latin, are not shown as selectable items in the Language widget in Region & Language. Furthermore, once that has been fixed, selecting the Serbian-Latin option results in the Serbian-Cyrillic language to be set.
The proposed upload (via merge proposal) fixes both the issues.
[Workaround]
To set a Serbian language option (or Catalan - Valencia, which is also affected by this) you can go to Settings -> Region & Language, click the "Manage Installed Languages" button, and set it through that GUI.
[Test Case]
* Install gnome-control-
* Install the Serbian language via gnome-language-
* Open Settings -> Region & Language and open the Language widget.
* You should see both "Serbian (Serbia)" and "Serbian (Serbia) - latin"
in the list. Confirm that you can successfully switch to both the
options.
[Regression Potential]
An explanation how the proposed fixes address the issues would be a bit technical, but basically we simply drop Ubuntu specific changes which have proved to have adverse side effects. The regression risk ought to be low.
[Original description]
Affected: 18.04.2 (did not try earlier versions of 18.04 series)
Not affected: 16.04 - any version (UI was different)
Preparation steps:
1. open gnome control center
2. open Region & Language
3. open Manage installed languages
4. open Install/Remove languages
5. select Serbian, click Apply
6. provide credentials for sudo installation
7. wait for installation to complete
8. click Close
What is wrong:
1. open gnome control center
2. open Region & Language
3. click Language selection
4. Serbian is not visible
Notes:
- Serbian is visible for the Formats selection
- Any other language I thought of: (Macedonian, Croatian, Bosnian, Russion...) simple work.
Here is some dpkg output on installaed packages matching sr (Serbian) or hr (Croatian).
ii firefox-locale-sr 66.0.2+
ii gnome-getting-
ii gnome-user-docs-sr 3.28.2+
ii hunspell-sr 1:6.0.3-3 all Serbian dictionary for hunspell
ii hyphen-sr 1:6.0.3-3 all Serbian hyphenation patterns
ii language-
ii language-
ii language-pack-sr 1:18.04+20180712 all translation updates for language Serbian
ii language-
ii libreoffice-l10n-sr 1:6.0.7-
ii thunderbird-
nebojsa@
rc language-
rc language-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-control-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Apr 8 20:10:54 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-04-06 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Medium → High |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Disco): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Disco): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Little correction: the correct language packages for Croatian as a reference are here:
nebojsa@ momcilo- desktop: ~$ dpkg -l | grep -e "-hr" build1- 0ubuntu0. 18.04.1 amd64 Croatian language pack for Firefox started- docs-hr 3.28.2-0ubuntu0.1 all Help a new user get started in GNOME (Croatian) git20180715- 0ubuntu0. 1 all GNOME user's guide (Croatian) pack-gnome- hr 1:18.04+20180712 all GNOME translation updates for language Croatian pack-gnome- hr-base 1:18.04+20180712 all GNOME translations for language Croatian pack-hr- base 1:18.04+20180712 all translations for language Croatian 0ubuntu0. 18.04.2 all office productivity suite -- Croatian language package locale- hr 1:60.6. 1+build2- 0ubuntu0. 18.04.1 amd64 Croatian language pack for Thunderbird
ii firefox-locale-hr 66.0.2+
ii gnome-getting-
ii gnome-user-docs-hr 3.28.2+
ii hunspell-hr 1:6.0.3-3 all Croatian dictionary for hunspell
ii hyphen-hr 1:6.0.3-3 all Croatian hyphenation patterns
ii language-
ii language-
ii language-pack-hr 1:18.04+20180712 all translation updates for language Croatian
ii language-
ii libreoffice-l10n-hr 1:6.0.7-
ii thunderbird-