compizconfig-settings-manager ignores $LC_MESSAGES

[Frits van Bommel]

Binary package hint: compizconfig-settings-manager

When compizconfig-settings-manager (ccsm) is started with the $LC_MESSAGES environment variable set to a different value than $LANG, it completely ignores $LC_MESSAGES. $LC_ALL doesn't work either.

To reproduce, run something like this from the terminal:
    LANG=nl_NL.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 ccsm
This shows some[1] Dutch text, even though I explicitly requested English text through $LC_MESSAGES.
Different locales presumably have the same issue if you don't have the Dutch one installed.

[1]: Only about half the text is in Dutch, the rest is English. That's the case even when $LANG is set to nl_NL.utf8 though, so it's probably just a case of missing translations.

Version information:
Ubuntu 10.10
compizconfig-settings-manager 0.8.2-0ubuntu1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Olleg Samoylov (olleg)]

The same shit with russian locale too.

[Olleg Samoylov (olleg)]

Tracked down. Looked like this is not a bug, but a feature. :)
http://gitweb.compiz.org/?p=compiz/compizconfig/libcompizconfig;a=commit;h=aeeaf362582bc16991e6659386c2f8af34cc8478

[Frits van Bommel (fvbommel)]

No, it actually confirms it was a bug, since that commit looks like the one that fixed it (I can no longer reproduce it).

Look at the code:

+static const char *
+getLocale ()
+{
+ char *lang = getenv ("LC_ALL");
+
+ if (!lang || !strlen (lang))
+ lang = getenv ("LC_MESSAGES");
+
+ if (!lang || !strlen (lang))
+ lang = getenv ("LANG");
+
+ return lang ? lang : "";
+}

This starts by looking at $LC_ALL. If that's unset or empty it tries $LC_MESSAGES, and if that's also unset or empty it falls back to $LANG.
This is exactly what it should be, AFAICT.

[Olleg Samoylov (olleg)]

Oh no, I was wrong. This patch fixes this bug. This bug still exists in 0.8.4, but fixed in 0.8.8 (latest). Just upgrade to new stable compiz version.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.