Missing sr_RS and sr...@latin Xlib locales

[Горан Ракић]

sr_RS locale is missing from locale.dir/locale.alias/compose.dir files.

It should have the same defs as sr_CS. Also please note that we have changed sr@Latn to sr@latin some time ago, so "@latin" modifier should be added to Xlib locale definition.

I don't know what is policy on this one, but support for obsolete sp, sr_CS and sr_YU may even be omitted from new releases. For some time now sr_RS locale is supported in glibc locale package and used as default for Serbian language (together with sr...@latin and legacy sr@...Latn).

This bug affects many applications that fallback to C locale due to missing Xlib locale. I am using Ubuntu Hardy but it is same in Intrepid.

Some examples include https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.5/+bug/194993 or other one http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15860

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

This might be faster to fix by submitting a patch to Debian (when it will be automatically picked up by Ubuntu when the package is synced). Anyway, we should make sure to fix this for Jaunty at least.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi grakic,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

[Горан Ракић (grakic)]

Bryce, I have no idea how lspci output or my xorg.conf would help this bug report. Can you explain, please?

[Горан Ракић (grakic)]

Danilo, following your advice I've just submitted this bug report to Debian (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507940), but this should not be an excuse to not fix it in Ubuntu faster.

[Горан Ракић (grakic)]

Patch is available upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11456

Can somebody integrate this, please?

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

I'll try to find somebody to push this for us.

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

The fix was released a little over a month ago in karmic in this release:

libx11 (2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Fix 'locale not supported by XLib' errors for la locales.

 -- Robert Collins <email address hidden> Sun, 24 May 2009 02:33:17 +1000