[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#608723: josm: LC_CTYPE decides language used for user interface

[David Paleino]

reassign 608723 openjdk-6-jre
clone 608723 -1
retitle -1 trick josm wrapper into using the correct locale setting
forcemerge 497072 608723
found 497072 6b20-1.9.2-1
affects 497072 josm
thanks

Hello Ansgar,

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 01:37:20 +0100, David Paleino wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:01:20 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> 
> > When I start josm, the interface uses Japanese by defautl even though
> > only LC_CTYPE is set to a Japanese locale:
> > 
> > $ locale
> > LANG=C
> > LANGUAGE=
> > LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8
> > LC_NUMERIC="C"
> > LC_TIME="C"
> > LC_COLLATE="C"
> > LC_MONETARY="C"
> > LC_MESSAGES="C"
> > LC_PAPER="C"
> > LC_NAME="C"
> > LC_ADDRESS="C"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="C"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
> > LC_ALL=
> > 
> > locale(7) states that LC_MESSAGES should decide which language messages
> > are displayed in, not LC_CTYPE.
> 
> I'd include LANG, LANGUAGE and LC_ALL there as well. Am I wrong?
> 
> However, I can confirm that even just "LC_CTYPE=<locale> josm" changes its
> language.

I found that this really is a Java bug. See the attached code example, run it
with different LC_CTYPEs and watch the results.

OpenJDK maintainers: I see that the bug was forwarded to Sun's bugtracker.
However, it has been marked as duplicate of another bug, which seems a totally
different bug to me, and marked as fixed. However, the bug's evidently still
there. Do you know whether there's some progress on this side?

Ansgar: I could just trick the wrapper into setting LC_* variables. I see
that with:

    $ LC_ALL=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=C josm

I no longer have messages in English (as LC_CTYPE=C would imply), but in
Italian. It seems that LC_ALL has higher priority over LC_CTYPE. Please
continue discussion on the cloned bug number :)

Kindly,
David

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