Bug 35534

Summary:	LC_MESSAGES misses the last S
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Florian Kriener <florian>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lennart>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Florian Kriener 2011-03-22 01:04:36 UTC

I was wondering, why systemd-fsck keeps to refuse to speak in english even though I have this in /etc/locale.conf

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=C

The reason seems to be line 57 of locale-setup.c:

[VARIABLE_LC_MESSAGES] = "LC_MESSAGE",

which I suspect to lead to this output of systemctl show-environment:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGE=C

which in turn made it into the man page of locale.conf.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2011-03-28 16:39:29 UTC

Ah, good catch. Fixed in git. Thanks!

Comment 2 Florian Kriener 2011-03-29 00:02:27 UTC

Your welcome, and I am happy I could help. :-) However, you have forgotten to update the man page as well. Here are the relevant lines from man/locale.conf.xml:

  <example>
      <title>German locale with english messages</title>

      <para><filename>/etc/locale.conf:</filename></para>

      <programlisting>LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
      LC_MESSAGE=C</programlisting>
  </example>

It does not break anything in systemd but the user might get confused, thats why I am reopening the bug.

Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2011-03-29 03:12:20 UTC

Ah, you win! ;-)

But now I hope I fixed all remaining problems. Please check!

Comment 4 Florian Kriener 2011-03-29 08:04:51 UTC

Thank you for fixing it. I took a quick glance at it and it looks good, but I guess you know that. :-) I didn't test it myself, because I'm using the debian package right now.

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