Bug 1297747

we don't have locale file /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_BE yet in glibc-common package. It will not work.

In that case, it should be removed from kde-i18n, or kde-i18n should include the missing locale files.

(In reply to A. Folger from comment #2)
> In that case, it should be removed from kde-i18n, or kde-i18n should include
> the missing locale files.

There are no sources in glibc for en_BE either, so it cannot easily
be included in glibc-common unless somebody creates a source for such
a locale.

(In reply to A. Folger from comment #0)

> KDE allows for setting a Belgian locale with English as the language,
> en_BE.utf8. However, that locale, which I find very useful (a Continental
> European locale with English as its language) is apparently not in the list ...

There is a en_DK.UTF-8 locale though, (Danish locale with English as
the language). Maybe that helps?

But where does this stop?  Do we create en_*.UTF-8 locale for every country, because there might be some english speaking people around?  What about other langauges that aren't the official languages of those countries?

kde-i18n is definitely not the right package to file this against, those are the translations for the ancient KDE 3 stuff.

The list is probably coming from one of: qt5-qtbase, kf5-ki18n, or maybe kde-l10n.

The usual way to deal with this is to set the LANG environment variable to the English variant of your choice (e.g. en_US.UTF-8), and then set other variables such as LC_PAPER, LC_TIME, LC_MEASUREMENT etc., based on personal preferences.  Or you can approach this from the other end: st LANG to your regional locale, and just set LC_MESSAGES to en_US.UTF-8 (or your preferred English variant).

As far as glibc is concerned, the existing locale framework is flexible enough to support this quite well, I think.

I am happy to use any of the workarounds (including using local C and setting all the variables individually, as pleases me), but in that case, please remove the non functioning option from KDE.

BTW, I am using Fedora 23 KDE spin, with all updates applied.

$ rpm -qa kde* | sort
kde-apps-rpm-macros-4.14.14-4.fc23.noarch
kde-artwork-active-0.3-5.fc23.noarch
kde-baseapps-15.08.2-1.fc23.x86_64
kde-baseapps-common-15.08.2-1.fc23.noarch
kde-cli-tools-5.5.1-1.fc23.x86_64
kde-filesystem-4-52.fc23.x86_64
kde-l10n-15.08.3-1.fc23.noarch
kde-plasma-activitymanager-0.5-8.fc22.x86_64
kde-platform-plugin-4.11.22-2.fc23.x86_64
kde-print-manager-15.04.2-3.fc23.x86_64
kde-print-manager-libs-15.04.2-3.fc23.x86_64
kde-runtime-15.08.3-1.fc23.x86_64
kde-runtime-drkonqi-15.08.3-1.fc23.x86_64
kde-runtime-flags-15.08.3-1.fc23.noarch
kde-runtime-libs-15.08.3-1.fc23.x86_64
kde-settings-23-8.fc23.noarch
kde-settings-kdm-23-8.fc23.noarch
kde-settings-plasma-23-8.fc23.noarch
kde-settings-pulseaudio-23-8.fc23.noarch
kde-style-breeze-5.5.1-1.fc23.x86_64
kde-wallpapers-15.04.2-2.fc23.noarch
kde-workspace-common-4.11.22-2.fc23.noarch
kdecoration-5.5.1-1.fc23.x86_64
kdeedu-4.14.3-2.fc23.noarch
kdeedu-data-15.04.2-2.fc23.noarch
kdeedu-math-4.14.3-2.fc23.noarch
kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer-15.04.2-2.fc23.x86_64
kdegraphics-thumbnailers-15.04.2-2.fc23.x86_64
kdelibs-4.14.14-4.fc23.x86_64
kdelibs-common-4.14.14-4.fc23.x86_64
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.14-4.fc23.x86_64
kdelibs-webkit-4.14.14-4.fc23.x86_64
kdenlive-0.9.10-1.fc22.x86_64
kdepasswd-15.08.2-1.fc23.x86_64
kdepim-runtime-4.14.10-5.fc23.x86_64
kdepim-runtime-libs-4.14.10-5.fc23.x86_64
kdepimlibs-4.14.10-3.fc23.x86_64
kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.14.10-3.fc23.x86_64
kdepimlibs-gpgme-4.14.10-3.fc23.x86_64
kdepimlibs-kxmlrpcclient-4.14.10-3.fc23.x86_64
kdeplasma-addons-5.5.1-1.fc23.x86_64
kdesu-5.5.1-1.fc23.x86_64

I'm marking this CLOSED/NOTABUG. We don't have an en_BE supported locale because having en_* for every country would be a large number of locales. As suggested in comment #7 the workaround is to use the various environment variables to set the locale settings as you would like them.

Please reopen and assign to the appropriate KDE component if there is still work needed to fix KDE, alternatively file a new bug.

This obviously still needs fixing, as an option is offered by KDE, which is not available in the underlying subsystem. I filed this bug against kde-i18n. If that's not the right address, then please enlighten me, because the underlying subsystems are not always clearly labelled to the user.

BTW, now I see it is assigned to glibc, which is not what I filed it against.

Please reoped and assign to the right package.

Done. Reopened against kde-i18n. They should not have a selector for a locale that us not supported by upstream glibc and not provided by the distribution.

It's possible to get the list of locales with “locale -a” (please do not parse glibc-internal files to get this information).

Florian, please look at the original bug report above. I mentioned that from the get go. I know how to get the list of glibc locales. The thing is, that list and KDE's list are not identical (there are other differences, too)

(In reply to A. Folger from comment #14)
> Florian, please look at the original bug report above. I mentioned that from
> the get go. I know how to get the list of glibc locales. The thing is, that
> list and KDE's list are not identical (there are other differences, too)

My comment was purely targeted at the KDE developers.  We had other software which parsed internal glibc files directly

Thank you, @Florian Weimer.

i have checked the systemsetting from latest KDE, it seems the setting for LC_MESSAGES does not exist anymore. We need to readd it back

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