Bug 384451

Summary:	systemsettings does not understand yet-to-be-generated locales
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Gaëtan Gilbert <gaetan.gilbert>
Component:	kcm_formats	Assignee:	Sebastian Kügler <sebas>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	katyaberezyaka, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.8.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430803 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431292
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Description Gaëtan Gilbert 2017-09-06 22:32:11 UTC

In system settings > regional settings > formats, it is possible to set any locale even if it isn't present on the system. This can appear to work while leading to random incomprehensible breakage (eg set LC_TIME to whatever, reboot, see that the KDE clock respects it. However if the locale isn't generated okular will fail to open files with non totally ASCII path like é.pdf, mcomix will just crash on startup, etc)

The program should somehow remind the user to generate locales. Possibilities:
- display only generated locales (maybe with a toggle to display the rest as well)
- display some warning when a non generated locale is chosen
- whatever you come up with

Comment 1 soredake 2021-01-03 17:04:49 UTC

Any progress on this?

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2021-01-04 21:04:28 UTC

*** Bug 430803 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 soredake 2021-01-08 09:30:41 UTC

I think kde should ask user, and if user agrees kde should generate missing locales.

Comment 4 soredake 2021-01-09 11:52:55 UTC

About generating locales https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431292

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2021-09-30 17:52:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 403580 ***