USC: In Simplified Chinese, authentication prompt says "[Invalid UTF-8]"

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Ubuntu 11.10 beta

1. Start a session in Simplified Chinese.
2. In Ubuntu Software Center, choose to install or remove something.

What happens: The prompt says "[Invalid UTF-8]".
What should happen: The prompt says whatever is the Chinese for "To install or remove software, you need to authenticate."

According to the reporter of bug 874755, the problem also occurs with Brazilian Portuguese (LANGUAGE=pt_BR:en).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Fábio Nogueira (fnogueira)]

Try:

1. Edit /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local

      Add (or not):

      pt_BR UTF-8

2. Edit /etc/default/locale:

      Add (or change):

      LANG="pt_BR.UTF-8"

3. Execute:

     sudo locale-gen -purge

     and

     sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Restart... and done!

In my Desktop.. everything Ok, after this modifications!

Fábio Nogueira
Salvador - Bahia - Brasil

[Helder (he7d3r)]

Thank you Fábio, your suggestion fixed my problem (for pt-BR).

[Helder (he7d3r)]

I don't know if this is related but during the installation of ubuntu 11.10 (32bits) I saw the following message:
locale.setlocale failed: unsupported locale setting (LANG=pt_BR)

[David Planella (dpm)]

Is this still an issue in 12.10?

[Pierre Slamich (pierre-slamich)]

Same question for 13.04

[Anthony Wong (anthonywong)]

It's no longer an issue in 13.04.