--- startkde.orig       2012-10-20 20:09:44.000000000 +0200
+++ startkde    2013-01-15 14:58:39.286326686 +0100
@@ -68,12 +68,14 @@
 mkdir -m 700 -p $kdehome/share
 mkdir -m 700 -p $kdehome/share/config
 
-# Read LANG and write the country part to kdeglobals
+# Check if the Country is undefined, if yes, read LANG and write the country
+# part to the user's kdeglobals
 # de_AT.UTF-8 => Country=at
-# This is necessary because klocale.cpp (kdelibs) does only try to read the value
-# from kdeglobals and then falls back to default instead of triyng to detect it
+# This is necessary because klocale.cpp (kdelibs) does only try to read the
+# value from kdeglobals and then falls back to default instead of triyng to
+# detect it
 
-if [ ! -e $kdehome/share/config/kdeglobals ] || [ ! `grep "Country=" $kdehome/share/config/kdeglobals` ]; then
+if [ -z "`kreadconfig --group Locale --key Country`" ]; then
   if [ ! $LANG ]; then
     if [ -e /etc/default/locale ]; then
       localefile='/etc/default/locale'