Bug 66699

Summary:	locale.LANG seems not to do its job on Fedora 19 Live
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	probono <probono>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description probono 2013-07-08 14:05:21 UTC

I am running a Fedora 19 Live system and I am trying to use locale.LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 to set the Live system to the German language.

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cmdline 
... locale.LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 ...

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ env | grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8

--> Seems wrong - I would have expected de_DE.UTF-8

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2013-09-12 17:39:05 UTC

what does "systemctl show-environment" print?

Note that gdm will override this system-wide setting with a per-user setting.

Comment 2 probono 2013-09-14 09:31:30 UTC

What good is a locale.LANG option that does not actually set the
language of the desktop? Is there any way to prevent gdm from
overriding this on a Live CD?

Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2014-05-24 09:58:05 UTC

Well, the system language is just the default, and users can adjust this setting to whatever suits them, overriding the default. This is really how this should work I am sure.

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