Language Settings not saved properly

[Steven Danna]

Binary package hint: gedit

Gedit does not save language settings for a document.

1) Open a document with gedit.
2) Change language from English to English(United Kingdom)
3) Save a Close Document.
4) Open Document

When I open the document the language is once again set to English rather than English(United Kingdom).

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

$ apt-cache policy gedit
gedit:
  Installed: 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

A valid bug, but I am guessing that persistent per-document language settings is not a trivially fixable bug. Can someone comment on the complexity of a fix for this issue?

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

~/.gnome2/gedit-metadata.xml stores the seen documents with the last know cursor position and the language highlight settings. It could contain the document encoding. This is not trivial, but it is simple.

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

Right, but I am pretty sure that gedit does not handle its language settings -- isn't that a toolkit-level feature, rather than an application-level feature?

[Steven Danna (ssd7)]

This comment is unrelated to whether this should or shouldn't be a papercut.

I submitted this bug in response to a question on answers.launchpad.net. Since that time, I've been able to confirm another anomaly that I'm not sure should be filed as a separate bug.

The procedure listed in the description still produces the bug indicated. However, if I do the same procedure with Turkish, gedit correctly remembers the language when I reopen the file at a later time. I can only reproduce this bug with variants of English. When I initially created the procedure for this bug, it seemed that it was intermittently valid for Turkish as well, but now I'm thinking that might have just been a result of my own error.

I am not really inconvenienced by this bug but would be happy to provide any further information needed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

duplicate bug #280315