Bug#656745: gnome-control-center: Region panel breaks LANG, breaks terminal charset, shows wrong languages

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2012/4/14 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de>:
> Package: gnome-control-center
> Version: 1:3.2.2-2
> Followup-For: Bug #656745
>
> I can confirm the incorrect behavior of the Region panel.
>
> For me, it will always list:
>
> British English
> Chinese (simplified)
> English
> Spanish

This particular issue seems to be the result of a commit by Rodrigo
Moya that makes the Region tab always show specific languages if a GDM
localisation for them is installed on the system:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2011-October/msg04043.html

Here, as a work-around, I installed the Debian package "localepurge"
which at least only leaves as available those localisations that I
actually want to see.

Regardless, the above code itself would need to be fixed, because it
auto-adds specific languages without making it possible to remove them
from the list using the Minus button, which is what would be the
expected behavior.

Also, rather than attempt to auto-add a multitude of languages to the
Region tab, the language selector pull-down list should be restored in
GDM; whoever recently removed it from there really needs to get their
brain checked.

Martin-Éric