Bug#756252: gnome-session: Doesn't set LANG

[Mike Hommey]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.12.1-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After upgrading gnome a few weeks ago, I noticed my terminal wasn't
displaying non-ascii characters anymore.

This, in turn, is due to this:

$ locale
LANG=
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

LANGUAGE is set, but LANG is not.

Looking at the process tree, I see that:
- systemd doesn't have either set.
- gdm3 doesn't have either set.
- gdm-session-worker has LANGUAGE set.

So I'm assuming it's gdm-session-worker that sets LANGUAGE. It should
set LANG too.

Cheers,

Mike

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-session-bin      3.12.1-3
ii  gnome-session-common   3.12.1-3
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.12.2-1
ii  gnome-shell            3.12.2-3

gnome-session recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base      7.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring     3.12.0-2
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.12.2-1

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