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gwibber package

  1. Bug #605543
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 605543

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Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos) wrote :

I haven't been seeing the behaviour since august last year, but that is because I fixed it by making the change in comment #15. I'll remove my fix to see whether the bug still occurs.

One reason I might have been seeing this problem and others didn't is my locale setting. It's a bit different than most people's:

LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_NAME=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

That is because I don't like Dutch language translations. I find them to be clunky and incomplete, so I'd rather see things in English, but I still want to see Dutch number formats, date formats, etc... Perhaps this unusual locale setting is triggering the bug?

Like Foppe says this was a real and reproducable bug. I think closing it now would be a bit premature. I still think it's likely that it points to a bug in the Python libraries.