Bug 343971 – www-client/chromium{,-bin}-7.0.517.41 picks up LC_CTYPE as the interface language

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sok Ann Yap 2010-11-03 13:12:50 UTC]

www-client/chromium-bin-7.0.517.41 somehow will pick up LC_CTYPE as the interface language

This only happens with Gentoo package. More info at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19491#c18 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
2. export LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8
3. chromium-bin

Actual Results:  
Interface language is Traditional Chinese

Expected Results:  
Interface language is English

Doesn't happen with www-client/chromium-bin-6.0.472.62-r1

Doesn't happen when using chromium-7.0.517.43-1 on Arch Linux

Happens when using the Gentoo package for www-client/chromium-bin-7.0.517.41 on Arch Linux

[Comment 1 Sok Ann Yap 2010-11-03 13:23:31 UTC]

Ah, Chromium has local patch for icu [1], while the 7.x ebuild uses the system icu. Guess this should be classified as bad building/packaging process by upstream?

[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19491#c15

[Comment 2 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-11-03 15:30:43 UTC]

Right, I think our system ICU does not contain the custom patch applied in the Chromium's bundled copy.

[Comment 3 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-11-04 20:59:33 UTC]

Should be fixed in >=www-client/chromium-7.0.517.44