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  1. Bug #553162
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 553162

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Fumihito YOSHIDA (hito) wrote : Re: Unset $LANGUAGES if the user picks a different locale in gdm, so that language-selector and gdm stop disagreeing

This bug has yet another affection of i18n breakage,

 - GDM read ~/.dmrc 's "Language" value and set LANG/LANGUAGEenvironment varibale.
 - ~/.dmrc has "Language=(langname).utf8" form by language-selector in some cases.
    (such as Lucid clean install without "no touch" boot. after install, ~/.dmrc has ".utf8" values)
 - So, LANG/LANGUAGE environment varibales sets "Language=(langname).utf8" by GDM.

But, LANG/LANGUAGE environment varibales expected 'LANG="(langname).UTF-8"' style, not "(langname).utf8".

This LANG/LANGUAGE settings behavior brakes some i18n codepages related applications (such as xarchiver, file-roller with archiver that has "codepage handling").

We must recover(or mitigate) dmrc's "Language" value too.