FS#11395 - Do not respect KDE environment variables for language

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Edgar Kalkowski (Erki der Loony) - Thursday, 04 September 2008, 10:38 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 04 September 2008, 12:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category i18n & l10n
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.2.0
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:

Pacman (and also makepkg) always used the English language on my system. But since the last update to KDE 4.1.1 they switched to german. All my locale environment variables (LC_*) were set to "en_GB.tuf8". Investigating further I found that there was an additional variable called LANGUAGE which was set to "de". Obviously this one had been introduced by KDE 4.1.1.

I don't think pacman should respect a non standard environment variable to choose it's language. It should rather stick to the locale.

Steps to Reproduce:

Install KDE 4.1.1 on a system which uses an English locale and switch KDE's language to german.
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Thursday, 04 September 2008, 12:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  This is a gettext or kde4 issue, this has nothing to do with pacman. We use the same localization techniques as any other application.
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Thursday, 04 September 2008, 11:03 GMT
I noticed this too ages ago :
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=399664#p399664

Could you explain how that is a pacman specific issue?
Every localized apps behaved the same.

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