> On June 12, 2014, 1:58 p.m., David Faure wrote:
> > Looks good; but I'm surprised that it works :) the code for using fallbacks 
> > must be in there somewhere already then? (if de_DE not present then use 
> > de). 
> > This patch is only about not skipping these two entries (de and de_CH), but 
> > how will it then pick the right one? Could it be that it works by chance, 
> > because the first one wins or something? (where first could mean "in the 
> > file" or worse "in some data structure"...)
> >
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     I think it works because it's the order in the file. I do not know 
> whether there are rules on how the order has to be in the file, I simply 
> assumed common sense which would list "de" before "de_DE" or "de_CH".
>     
>     From reading the code I didn't find anything which looked like a 
> fallback. It looked to me like a found value is overwritten when a translated 
> comes in. But I might have missed something.
> 
> David Faure wrote:
>     I don't trust common sense, but "scripty" orders them indeed. Just 
> possibly not people writing desktop files by hand (e.g. distros?)... I guess 
> the "desktop entry spec" doesn't specify ordering.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     the spec only specifies the parsing, but not the writing. In fact the 
> only example is the other way around:
>     
>      Name=Foo
>      Name[sr_YU]=...
>      Name[sr@Latn]=...
>      Name[sr]=...
> 
> Chusslove Illich wrote:
>     So... support for handling the language codes listed by David is simply 
> gone in KF5, as it stands? More precisely, if the user has set glibc locale 
> to sr_RS@latin, and a .desktop file contains Name[sr]= and Name[sr@latin]= 
> (in any order), what will be read by the current implementation?
>
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     @latin gets removed by QLocale, so it would pick Name[sr]

This means that localization for the said locales will be very obviously 
broken, given the prominence of strings from .desktop files.


- Chusslove


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On June 16, 2014, 10:26 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated June 16, 2014, 10:26 a.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for KDE Frameworks, David Faure, John Layt, and Oswald 
> Buddenhagen.
> 
> 
> Repository: kconfig
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> Fix reading of entries for language/country combinations
> 
> This fixes a regression introduced in
> 988f09bb051dca0437ecec431ee44ed5b4a560d8.
> 
> The mentioned commit ensures that if the locale is e.g. "de_DE" the
> entry "de" will be used. But this breaks if there is a translation
> for another country. E.g. for "de_CH" it would also pick the "de"
> entry.
> 
> This change now operates on both just the language code and the locale.
> If an entry with the language code is present it will be picked. If
> another entry with the exact locale is found it will be overwritten.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   autotests/kdesktopfiletest.cpp 6c3af4c2cd55b9140c0cd48526947431ceb7e798 
>   src/core/kconfig.cpp a2598f8e8fce91a8de3f34b272e15a6c280a50db 
>   src/core/kconfigdata.h fdec85dc90467560bd312b72266ef0b3f243d076 
>   src/core/kconfigdata.cpp 109063d65e97bcb7ba08cf6e5a6f3acb885fe845 
>   src/core/kconfigini.cpp a882ee31150658f3e5cfb036362ff0583f71cbd9 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118692/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> unit tests still pass, but my knowledge about KConfig and locales is not 
> sufficient to be sure that this is now 100 % correct.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin Gräßlin
> 
>

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