Encoding issue when translating locale modifiers

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

[Impact]

When gettext translate locale modifiers, the output encoding is not set to UTF-8, so non-ascii letters are replaced with question marks. A fix has been committed upstream, and the proposed fix cherry picks that commit.

[Test Case]

* Install the Serbian language, switch to Serbian — Latin, and relogin

* Open Settings -> Region & Language and find that the current language is not labeled correctly

* Upgrade libgnome-desktop-3-19 and friends from focal-proposed

* Open Settings -> Region & Language and find that the current language label is now correct

[Regression Potential]

Negligible

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This bug has been marked 'fix committed' for the devel series, but there is no version of gnome-desktop3 in groovy-proposed, only in the groovy release pocket. So this needs explanation of the status for groovy prior to being accepted as an SRU.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

It was committed in upstream master, hence fix committed, and will end up in groovy-release as soon as the desktop team starts upgrading to GNOME 3.37.

It was also cherry picked into upstream's 3.36 branch, so alternatively this can enter focal with an upgrade to 3.36.3 in a couple of weeks (and will then not be verified explicitly). Please note that gnome-desktop is a core desktop package where the GNOME exception applies.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/GNOME

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Gunnar, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-desktop3 into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop3/3.36.2-0ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Verified the test case using version 3.36.2-0ubuntu2 of libgnome-desktop-3-19 etc. from focal-proposed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-desktop3 - 3.36.2-0ubuntu2

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gnome-desktop3 (3.36.2-0ubuntu2) focal; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/encoding_for_locale_modifiers.patch:
    - Upstream commit which fixes encoding issue when translating
      locale modifiers (LP: #1878515)

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Fri, 15 May 2020 00:54:00 +0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-desktop3 has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.