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From: "benedikt-straub at web dot de" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: libc-locales@sourceware.org
Subject: [Bug localedata/28278] New: Broken LC_CTYPE in nds_DE locale
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:07:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-28278-716@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28278

            Bug ID: 28278
           Summary: Broken LC_CTYPE in nds_DE locale
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.33
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: benedikt-straub at web dot de
                CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu MATE 21.04 with the Low German (nds_DE) system locale. With
the default settings for this locale I'm unable to type non-ASCII characters
such as äöüß in many applications.
The cause appears to be that /usr/share/i18n/locales/nds_DE defines LC_CTYPE to
en_DK which looks very weird. Manually exporting LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 fixes the
bug for me.

I don't see why this is not the default setting. Most other LC_* variables use
the de_DE definition by default in nds_DE. Is this a bug, or is there a reason
why it's done this way?

Best regards and thanks in advance :)

---
P.S. I hope this is the right place for this topic; if not, please feel free to
point out where this belongs. The ubuntu package search told me my locales are
provided by the package `locales` which is provided by package `glibc` version
`2.33-0ubuntu5`. Original question was at
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+question/698525.

P.P.S. I'm also surprised that the locale definition uses the localized
language name "Neddersass'sch" although "Plattdüütsch" and "Plattdütsch" are
far more common forms. Nice to speak a language that can't decide on it's own
name. But that just as a side note :) Should I open a separate bug report for
this?

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             reply	other threads:[~2021-08-27  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-27  9:07 benedikt-straub at web dot de [this message]
2021-08-27  9:41 ` [Bug localedata/28278] " fweimer at redhat dot com
2021-08-27  9:41 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2021-08-27  9:58 ` benedikt-straub at web dot de
2021-08-27 10:08 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2021-08-27 11:05 ` benedikt-straub at web dot de

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