Bug#988540: im-config: breaks the keyboard configuration

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

Hi Gunnar,

On 2021-05-15 13:11:04 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> I see one thing which looks suspicious: You have set the LC_ALL environment
> variable to C. LC_ALL is not supposed to be set permanently. Ever.
> Especially not to C, which disables UTF-8 encoding.

Well, I don't have that in my settings, though there may still be
some old scripts around that does this, but only inside the script,
of course.

> What's the contents of your /etc/default/locale file?

#  File generated by update-locale
#LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"

And in my shell:

zira:~> locale
LANG=POSIX
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

And if I run "/usr/share/bug/im-config 3> /dev/stdout" manually,
I get:

[...]
=== locale output ===
LANG=POSIX
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
[...]

But reportbug still gives LC_ALL=C.

> With that said, im-config can be disabled if you don't need it. To do that
> you can use the "Input Method Configuration" GUI and select "none". The
> command line equivalent is:
> 
> im-config -n none

Thanks, that works. But the default should not modify the user's
settings.

BTW, reportbug still gives an empty "setxkbmap -print", but the output
is actually sent to the terminal instead of being redirected to the
file... Obviously, there is a missing ">&3" for this line in
"/usr/share/bug/im-config":

[...]
    if [ -x /usr/bin/setxkbmap ]; then
        echo "=== setxkbmap -print ===" >&3
        /usr/bin/setxkbmap -print
        echo >&3
    fi
[...]

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