[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#736474: Bug#736474: lightdm: Sets incorrect LANG=en_GB.utf8 locale name

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Fri Jan 24 06:58:41 UTC 2014


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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:45:45AM +0000, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> Package: lightdm
> Version: 1.8.5-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> After switching from gdm to lightdm I have noticed that on login to X,
> my locale is set to
> 
>   LANG=en_GB.utf8
> 
> This is incorrect; the suffix should be .UTF-8. Programs may rely on
> that string to detect whether the locale is UTF-8 and change behaviour
> accordingly. This locale is correctly set by console logins.

If something special cares one encoding type and not the other, I think
it's a bug in the program.

Regards,
- -- 
Yves-Alexis Perez
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