Package: locales Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11 Severity: important Tags: sid Using debian-installer I have installed a clean unstable system. After installation I have done 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and generated the locales listed below in 'debconf information'. I selected en_US.ISO-8859-15 as my default locale. This also sets 'LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15' in /etc/environment. It appears this is an invalid setting, at least for the X Window environment. If I start an application from a terminal (KDE's konsole), I get messages like this: fjp@sauron:~$ xterm Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C or fjp@sauron:/etc$ kxsconfig phosphor Qt: Locales not supported on X server or fjp@sauron:/etc$ vlc VLC media player 0.7.1 Bond Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C In vlc this LANG setting even causes the application to crash when I select text in an input field: Gdk-ERROR **: file gdkselection.c: \ line 246 (gdk_string_to_compound_text): assertion failed: \ (property.encoding == gdk_atom_intern ("COMPOUND_TEXT", FALSE) && property.format == 8) aborting... Aborted An strace for this last situation is attached. All problems disappear if I set LANG=C or LANG=en_US. I do not know if the LANG setting itself is invalid or not, but the problems it causes seem to me to be unacceptable. I think other, similar locales may cause the same problems. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 Versions of packages locales depends on: ii debconf 1.4.21 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 [glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11] 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- debconf information: * locales/default_environment_locale: en_US * locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, nl_NL ISO-8859-1, nl_NL.UTF-8 UTF-8, nl_NL.UTF-8@euro UTF-8, nl_NL@euro ISO-8859-15
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