Bug 382008

Summary: preferred languages missing C and en
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Aaron Peterson <alpeterson>
Component: kcm_languageAssignee: John Layt <jlayt>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: hein, lueck
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.9.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Aaron Peterson 2017-07-05 10:47:33 UTC 
I am trying to figure out how to have Chinese language input... and I ended up changing the system language... but I did include American English as the most preferred language...  but then apt is in Chinese.. .and some gnu image scanner is in Chinese...

it is ambiguous what order the languages are selected in... does top win, or bottom win?

Also, there is no obvious way to enable Chinese input within System Settings... and this regional panel is more confusing than helpful.  It should probably say something about UI Language preferences.

C and en should be included in the laguages.. those are the default if nothing is specified I believe?  en_US and en_GB are ok... but I'll take any en before Chinese...  Yes, I do want to switch quickly between zh and en... so I can learn zh.. but that's not likely to happen any time soon.  It would be nice to consider it in updates.

So, this bug is basically saying that the Regional Settings is confusing, and too easy to bork the system.   Please update documenation/description of what it does, and include en and C so I don't get screwed when a program supports en but not en_US
Comment 1 Eike Hein 2018-05-17 10:27:58 UTC 
The rewritten Language KCM makes it clear which language is the default.

Input Method settings are in the work for 5.14/15.