Bug#697917: Aw: Re: Bug#697917: Libreoffice failures in locale de_DE@euro
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:31:43AM +0200, markus.mbox@gmx.de wrote:
> >> I am working with LANG=de_DE@euro.
> >Don't do that then, swwitch to .UTF-8. It's not 2002 anymore. And
> >I'd think that many other things at least assume UTF8 per default. Especially
> >since Debian defaults to UTF-8 since loong, too.
>
> It well may be that utf-8 is selected per default. But this does not mean, it
> is the only working locale. Or is there any statement from Debian that all other
> locales have been dropped?
It is often the case the obsolete, notneeded anymore stuff gets broken
pass-by-pass when noone is using that anymore....
> One reason for my report is the hope the locale issues will be solved in the
> final release of Debian 8.
I won't work on that, and I doubt upstream will. Try and forward this
and we'll see. I won't. Use .UTF-8.
> No. As the message says, CUPS wants an utf-8 encoded value. It is the task of LO+to > build and send it.
Which it probably would just have done if you used it with .UTF-8.
> Like all other software LO cannot rely on working in a special locale. Or otherwise
> it should refuse to start when it detects an unsupported one.
If you want, I can easily do that in the soffice script.
You won't like that, but...
That said, you probably also get the problem if you used "C" (ok, then
you probably wouldn't have non-ascii characters, but...)
Sometimes things like this need to happen before people change their
systems/config to something not from the past.
Regards,
Rene
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