Comment 12 for bug 553162

Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 553162] Re: Unset $LANGUAGES if the user picks a different locale in gdm, so that language-selector and gdm stop disagreeing

Fumihito YOSHIDA [2010-05-11 12:51 -0000]:
> But, LANG/LANGUAGE environment varibales expected
> 'LANG="(langname).UTF-8"' style, not "(langname).utf8".

That's not true. ".utf8" is the canonical name now, and .UTF-8 is an
alias.

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

These would be bugs in those applications then, not gdm.

Thanks!

Martin
--
Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)