Feature #6001

Fix locales format based on wrong assumption

Added by Tails 2013-07-18 07:49:15 . Updated 2018-08-19 08:51:50 .

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Confirmed
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Normal
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Category:
Internationalization
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Description

A few places in Tails (git grep LANG) assume everything that can be in $LANG starts with the xx_XX form, which is, unfortunately, not true: e.g. fil_PH.

Instead of relying home-made shell trickery and re-inventing the wheel we should consider using some existing library or tool for this, or we should read the standards so we can prevent buggy edge cases.

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Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #6142: Factor out $LANG parsing Confirmed
Related to Tails - Feature #17002: Do stats on the languages in which people start Tails Resolved
Has duplicate Tails - Feature #17003: tails-security-check doesn't support language codes with 3 characters Duplicate

History

#1 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-09 11:17:53

  • Subject changed from fix locales form wrong assumption to Fix locales form wrong assumption
  • Description updated
  • Starter set to No

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2014-06-21 14:24:21

#3 Updated by BitingBird 2015-01-02 20:04:30

  • Category set to Internationalization

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2018-01-19 16:20:13

I still see Feature #6001 at least in config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/tails-security-check and config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/tails-documentation.

#5 Updated by Anonymous 2018-08-19 08:51:50

  • Subject changed from Fix locales form wrong assumption to Fix locales format based on wrong assumption

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2019-08-29 07:22:50

  • has duplicate Feature #17003: tails-security-check doesn't support language codes with 3 characters added

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2019-08-29 07:23:57

  • related to Feature #17002: Do stats on the languages in which people start Tails added