Bug 96849 – Xsession overwrites LINGUAS

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jonathan Ernst 2005-06-23 04:43:43 UTC]

In K3b ebuilds, the i18n language is determined using the following script:

LANGS="bg br bs ca cs cy da de el en_GB es et fr ga hi hu is it lt mk nb nl nn pa pt pt_BR ru sr sv ta tr uk zh_CN"

MAKE_LANGS=$(echo "${LINGUAS} ${LANGS}" | fmt -w 1 | sort | uniq -d | fmt -w 10000)

However on most systems, even if LINGUAS is set to "fr" in make.conf, some script changes it to be like the $LANG variable. If $LINGUAS is set to something like fr_CH.UTF-8 MAKE_LANGS is not set properly and k3b stays in english. This ebuild should use the same way of determining the language as is found in the openoffice-ximian ebuild for example which accepts both "fr" and "fr_CH.UTF_8".

Thanks.

[Comment 1 Jonathan Ernst 2005-06-23 04:45:40 UTC]

It seems that openoffice-ximian doesn't accept fr_CH.UTF-8 either...

[Comment 2 Jonathan Ernst 2005-06-23 05:05:06 UTC]

Ok, after searching a little bit more, it seems that the problem comes from the
fact that /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession overwrites LINGUAS with LANG:

 if [ -n "$LINGUAS" ]; then
    if [ "$LINGUAS" != "$LANG" ]; then
      LINGUAS="$LANG"
    fi
  else
    unset LINGUAS
  fi

This is wrong isn't it ? LINGUAS should be something like "fr" and LANG can be
somethin like fr_CH.UTF-8 

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2005-06-23 05:51:55 UTC]

LINGUAS can be fr_CH (how else to distinguish between different branches of
languages), not sure about the encodings though.

[Comment 4 Jonathan Ernst 2005-06-23 06:07:52 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> LINGUAS can be fr_CH (how else to distinguish between different branches of
> languages), not sure about the encodings though.

In this case it wont work for k3b either (and I guess for openoffice-ximian it's
the same problem)

So what we have now:

1)LINGUAS=fr is replaced to LINGUAS=$LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8 by /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession
2)LINGUAS=fr_CH won't work for some ebuild (k3b, openoffice)
3)LINGUAS=fr_CH.UTF-8 won't work for some ebuild (k3b, openoffice)

[Comment 5 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-10-15 17:01:37 UTC]

what is the original problem here?

[Comment 6 Jonathan Ernst 2005-10-15 17:19:44 UTC]

Putting linguas in make.conf these application seems localized correctly now.
However, you might want to be sure that the behaviour in Comment #2 is correct
(overwriting LINGUAS with LANG).

Thanks

[Comment 7 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-10-15 17:37:16 UTC]

works for myself / reporter now