https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516550
Bug ID: 516550
Summary: Conflating LANGUAGE and LANG causes UI breakage for
locales like de_CH
Classification: Applications
Product: systemsettings
Version First 6.5.80
Reported In:
Platform: KDE Linux
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Keywords: usability
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: kcm_regionandlang
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
See https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/issues/523.
Basically if you set the locale to de_CH in the installer, LANG gets set to
that and the KCM shows "Schweizer Hochdeutsch" (Swiss German") as the language,
but Swiss German isn't a language, so this causes several problems:
1. The UI string is wrong; the actual language is German
2. If you go to change it, you won't find Swiss German in the language list
3. There's no way to set a new top-level locale that doesn't correspond to a
language
Suggestions:
1. offer a top-level setting that sets LANG
2. populate the "Language" setting automatically with what LANG says, but offer
the current UI to override it or add more languages
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