Bug#586023: Locale settings in .profile overwritten

[Kai Weber]

* Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>:

> > > LANG can be configured from the login window, which was already the case
> > > with gdm2.
> > > LC_MESSAGES is not touched by the Xsession script.
> > 
> > The script sets LC_ALL which overwrites all LC_* variables.
> 
> It only does if LC_ALL is already set, and it sets it to the value
> configured in the display manager:
> 
>     if [ -n "$LC_ALL" ] && [ "$LC_ALL" != "$LANG" ]; then
>         LC_ALL="$LANG"
>     fi

Ok. Investigated the problem further with the attached script (sh -x
test.sh).

These are my settings from .profile to document the problem again:

# prefer german settings for everything except messages
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=C
export LANG LC_MESSAGES

I get the expected behaviour if I select a GDM_LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 in the
login screen.  Then LANG is set to de_DE.UTF-8 and my LC_*
configurations are untouched.

As far as I can tell and understand, GDM_LANG beats settings of LANG in
a ~/.profile file.

I can not argue whether this is a bug or not. Seems I am the only one
who was surprised. So, I guess you can close this bug.

Thanks for your help, best wishes
Kai
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