System / Administration / Printing consistently fails to start in locale en_NG

[Andy Rabagliati]

Binary package hint: system-config-printer-gnome

python /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py in a terminal reports :-

ValueError: unknown locale: en_NG

LANG=C python /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py

works.

Launchpad said this might not be the right place to report it.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Tim, all components of system-config-printer and hal-cups-utils need to stay stable on unknown language/locale settings. I suggest to let the programs to fall back to English if the user supplies a completely unknown locale. If the language (two lower-case letters is known but the country (two upper-case letters) not, the fallback should go to the language without specification of the country.

[Tim Waugh (twaugh)]

Till, I'm pretty sure all current stable releases (1.0.0, 0.7.82.3, and 0.7.74.13) handle locale exceptions by falling back to C. If you want to make it more complicated than that, please supply a patch. Thanks.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Then all is OK. So the problem should disappear with the next system-config-printer package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package system-config-printer - 1.0.0+git20080609-0ubuntu1

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system-config-printer (1.0.0+git20080609-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
     o GIT snapshot from 09 June 2008
     o Fixed crash bugs: LP: #222494, LP: #222616, LP: #224021, LP: #225241.
     o Fixed missing title bar icon (LP: #234750)
     o Fixed system-config-printer not starting on unknown locale (LP: #236858)
  * debian/system-config-printer-gnome.install: Added new file errordialogs.py

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:57:59 +0100