Bug 363523

Summary:	Format region list contains nds_DE instead of de_DE
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Nicolas Dietrich <nidi>
Component:	kcm_formats	Assignee:	Sebastian Kügler <sebas>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	suse
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.6.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Nicolas Dietrich 2016-05-25 20:17:01 UTC

The region list in the "numeric, currency and time formats" settings module contains "Germany (nds_DE)", but not "Germany (de_DE)".

As there is no specific formatting in lower-saxony (nds_DE), this is certainly a bug.

This is critical, since users (as me) just selecting the one existing "Germany" setting without further looking, will have their `LANG` set to `nds_DE.UTF-8`, which may not be generated at all (as in my case). This may lead to major encoding brokenness throughout the system.

Note that the "Detailed settings" do contain `de_DE` and not `nds_DE`.

See also bug #357424.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sebastian Kügler 2016-05-26 08:42:28 UTC

I see, it's indeed the case. I'll look into it.

Comment 2 suse 2016-07-12 19:37:42 UTC

Just a comment:
I had set at my OpenSUSE tumbleweed installation the language to `nds_DE.UTF-8` by accident. 
This causes libreoffice to refuse to open any documents which contains umlauts (äöüß). The error message libreoffice produces is very misleading: "... does not exist"

After changing the files ~/.config/plasma-locale-settings.sh  content to `export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8` libreoffice behaves normally.

Comment 3 Nicolas Dietrich 2016-07-13 21:52:10 UTC

This is still the case in systemsettings 5.7.1.

Comment 4 suse 2018-03-29 09:44:01 UTC

The region list in the "numeric, currency and time formats" settings module contains the region "Deutschland - Deutsch (de_DE)". (As well as nds_DE, ksh_DE, ...)

plasma: 5.12.3