The problem is gone since I have edited out the extraneous .utf8 that has been appended by GDM. My current dmrc looks like:
[Desktop] Session=gnome Language=fi_FI.UTF-8 Layout=fi Langlist=fi_FI.UTF-8:fi LCMess=fi_FI.UTF-8
... and it works.
I have never used any language selector since the system defaults to the correct language (Finnish) for me.
The problem is gone since I have edited out the extraneous .utf8 that has been appended by GDM. My current dmrc looks like:
[Desktop] fi_FI.UTF- 8 fi_FI.UTF- 8:fi
Session=gnome
Language=
Layout=fi
Langlist=
LCMess=fi_FI.UTF-8
... and it works.
I have never used any language selector since the system defaults to the correct language (Finnish) for me.