problem with Italian language

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Uwe Geercken wrote:

> as I select "it_IT.UTF-8" as language in the login dialog, this does not seem to
> be right. ".UTF-8" would be duplicated, which would fit to the error.
> 
> so I changed it to: 
> 
> lang_command = 'LC_ALL='+lang+' LANGUAGE='+lang+ ' LANG='+lang
> (I stripped off all ".UTF-8" in that line)

That's pretty much what I was thinking.  The question is, is this a problem
for all of the other languages too and should ldm just omit the extra utf-8
or is there something more complex going on here?

> I went ahead and rebootet the system and the client (just to be sure..) and it
> worked well. where I found an english taskbar before (which I testet again this
> evening), I now find the correct taskbar in italian.
>
> I also tried to login with language = de_ch.UTF-8 and it also worked.

Excellent!  Please report this as a bug in launchpad.  

	https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs

You should quote this thread so the ldm author/packager can see what we've
worked out.
	http://www.mail-archive.com/edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com/index.html#00558

> so this seems to be the fix. thanks for all your help.

It's the fix for you, but it would be much better to fix it for everyone
else.  That way nobody need worry about this issue again.

Gavin