Bug#607138: locales: broken cyrillic in xterm with ru_UA.utf8 locale

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 12 juin 2011 à 17:54 +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> > > I still don't understand why gdm defines "ru_UA.utf8" and why
> > > libx11-data doesn't provide an alias contrary to other locales. I am
> > > therefore reassigning this bug to both these packages.
> > >
> > As far as I can understand gdm defines locale during login process
> > accordingly to the language chosen by user on the login screen. Absence
> > of proper alias was the main problem I think. Thanks.
> > 
> I think providing an alias for other locales was a mistake, if it means
> gdm thinks it's a good idea to do that kind of crap.

gdm from stable and gdm3 from unstable use foo_BAR.UTF-8.

Maybe you are talking about gdm3 from experimental. And this one gets
locale information from accountsservice, which in turn extracts it
directly from the locale data (there is nothing hardcoding foo_BAR.utf8
instead of foo_BAR.UTF-8, it’s the information as provided by locales).

Cheers,
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