[ubuntu-in] Locale en_IN or en_IN.UTF-8 ??

[Sanjay Bhangar]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Jasbir Khehra <jasbir.k at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Choosing language as  English(India) during the install process makes
> en_IN the default locale of the system.But this causes the gtk1 using
> applications not to show their menu eg. audaciity,xmms (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audacity/+bug/65549 ) .


Hey - had this exact same issue yesterday - had to change my locale to en_US
to get menus to show up in XMMS - and now I'm having these strange locale
issues ;-) - would appreciate some clarity on the issue from someone who
knows more about these things :-) .

>
> Changing the locale to en_US solves this problem somehow. Also noticed
> there was no .UTF-8 for en_IN when listing the locales using locale -a
> . So generating the en_IN.UTF-8 locale and making it the default,
> solves the gtk1 bug plus other irritants.


Can you please explain how you "generated the en_IN.UTF-8 locale?" Thanks!


>
> So my questions are,
> a) what is the difference between en_IN and en_IN.UTF-8?
> b) why cant en_IN.UTF-8 be the default locale when selecting English
> (India) as the preferred language?
>
> I have noticed this behaviour in Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 , and no other
> language packs have been installed.
> Can some one check this out in 8.04?
>

Just to reiterate - this would be a really nice bug to have fixed - I
remember this problem popping up some years ago and not having any clue on
how to deal with it back then and just cursing Ubuntu -- one doesn't think
highly of an operating system when new programs you install show up without
any text in their menus or buttons:-(. This seems to be a problem fairly
specific to using the en_IN locale, which is, of course, the default locale
most people from India end up with. Would be really nice if fixed. (I do
believe, though, that applications using gtk2+ have this fixed - I'm fairly
certain the new Audacity on the repository has this issue fixed, though not
a 100% sure, and XMMS definitely does not have it fixed... )

Thanks for bringing this up - and happy coincedence - I was just dealing
with the exact same problem :-)

-Sanjay



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