#844991 lightdm: does not offer C.UTF-8 locale

Package:
lightdm
Source:
lightdm
Description:
simple display manager
Submitter:
Daniel Shahaf
Date:
2022-11-25 14:21:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#844991#5
Date:
2016-11-19 08:43:26 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

tl;dr: The locales menu does not offer the "C" and "C.UTF-8" locales.

   * What led up to the situation?

I have the following locales installed:

    % locale -a
    C
    C.UTF-8
    POSIX
    de_DE.utf8

The system default is:

    % cat /etc/default/locale
    LANG=C.UTF-8

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?

The locale menu on the top right corner of the login screen offers one
choice: de_DE.utf8.  (The menu option is called "German - Germany".)

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I expected the locales "C" and "C.UTF-8" to be offered in the drop-down
menu as well.

Cheers,

Daniel
#844991#10
Date:
2017-01-22 21:56:25 UTC
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The code includes a function to filter UTF-8 locales, but it is not always
used. The attached patch fixes the problem.
#844991#17
Date:
2017-01-23 07:24:02 UTC
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To:
Thanks, can you push that upstream on launchpad.net?

Regards,
#844991#24
Date:
2017-01-24 10:21:31 UTC
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forwarded 844991 https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1658950
thanks

Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>:

Submitted, thank you.