[Bug 1322968] [NEW] Changing country leads to invalid locale

[Dimitris Kardarakos]

Public bug reported:

New installation of Kubuntu 14.04 and upgraded via kubuntu-ppa.
Initially, country is set to "United States". The locale settings are
the following:

~/.kde/env$ cat setlocale.sh 
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
export LANGUAGE=en:el:en 
export LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 
export LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 
export LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 
export LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 
export LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8 
export LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8 
export LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8 
export LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8 
export LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 

Then, I change Country to Greece, via System Settings. Locale changes as
follows:

export LANG=en_GR.UTF-8 
export LANGUAGE=en:el:en 
export LC_NUMERIC=en_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_TIME=en_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_MONETARY=en_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_PAPER=en_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_NAME=en_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_ADDRESS=en_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_TELEPHONE=en_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GR.UTF-8 

As far as I know, en_GR.UTF-8 is not a valid entry. A severe loss of
functionality is that accents cannot be set properly to greek vowels.
Changing manually setlocale.sh to:

export LANG=el_GR.UTF-8 
export LANGUAGE=en:el:en 
export LC_NUMERIC=el_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_TIME=el_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_MONETARY=el_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_PAPER=el_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_IDENTIFICATION=el_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_NAME=el_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_ADDRESS=el_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_TELEPHONE=el_GR.UTF-8 
export LC_MEASUREMENT=el_GR.UTF-8 

solves the issue.


My version:

Qt: 4.8.6
KDE Development Platform: 4.13.1
KDE Daemon: 4.13.1

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

** Affects: kde-runtime (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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