External plugins not working when locale is ml_IN

[Santhosh Thottingal]

Binary package hint: gedit

The external plugins are not working in Gedit when the locale is Malayalam(ml_IN). Launching from console shows python error trace and External Plugins menus are not appearing in Tools menu.
error trace is given below
$ LANG=ml_IN gedit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/__init__.py", line 184, in activate
    helper = ExternalToolsWindowHelper(self, window)
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/__init__.py", line 130, in __init__
    manager.insert_action_group(self._action_group, -1)
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/__init__.py", line 181, in __init__
    ToolLibrary().set_locations(self.get_data_dir())
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/library.py", line 59, in set_locations
    self.tree = ToolDirectory(self, '')
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/library.py", line 139, in __init__
    self._load()
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/library.py", line 160, in _load
    self.tools.append(Tool(self, p))
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/library.py", line 207, in __init__
    self._load()
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/library.py", line 219, in _load
    lang = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_MESSAGES)[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 497, in getlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 410, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: ml_IN
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/__init__.py", line 192, in update_ui
    window.get_data(self.WINDOW_DATA_KEY).update_ui()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'update_ui'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/__init__.py", line 192, in update_ui
    window.get_data(self.WINDOW_DATA_KEY).update_ui()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'update_ui'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/__init__.py", line 192, in update_ui
    window.get_data(self.WINDOW_DATA_KEY).update_ui()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'update_ui'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/__init__.py", line 188, in deactivate
    window.get_data(self.WINDOW_DATA_KEY).deactivate()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'deactivate'

Version: Ubuntu 9.04
Locale Environment Malayalam(ml_IN)
Always reproducible

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you run "locale -a" and add the log to the bug?

[Santhosh Thottingal (santhosh-thottingal)]

Locale exists. After the console errors, gedit is opened and interface is in ml_IN
$ locale -a
bn_BD
bn_IN
C
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_NG
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
hi_IN
ml_IN
POSIX
ta_IN

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug should be sent to the code writters on bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having the issue

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Could you try if this is still an issue in Karmic?

[Santhosh Thottingal (santhosh-thottingal)]

This bug is dependent on this python bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue6895
Reproducible in Karmic too when external plugins activated and locale is ml_IN (can be any locale without encoding in localename string and python's locale.py does not have a locale alias for that)