Public bug reported:
Hi, a while ago to get non-English software running in Wine, I had to
make some changes to /var/lib/locales/supported.d/* files. Every time a
locales pack comes out, it overwrites these files and I've had to update
again and again.
Today, I ran update manager to install all the new updates. I am
guessing one of them must have had to do with locales, because in the
status window I saw it running a dpkg-reconfigure locales. As usual,
many were missing.
I went back to add them, and when I ran dpkg-reconfigure locales
manually, I got a screen full of errors. Unfortunately, I did not log
them and don't know how to make them appear again. When I ran it a
second time, this showed:
Generating locales...
en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
he_IL.ISO-8859-8... up-to-date
he_IL.UTF-8... up-to-date
ja_JP.EUC-JP... up-to-date
... up-to-date
ja_JP.UTF-8... up-to-date
ko_KR.EUC-KR... up-to-date
ko_KR.UTF-8... up-to-date
... up-to-date0
... up-to-date
... up-to-date
zh_CN.UTF-8... up-to-date
zh_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
zh_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
zh_TW.Big5... up-to-date
zh_TW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
The lines missing a locale are, exactly, where I had put ja_JP.SJIS
SJIS, zh_CN.GB18030 GB108030, zh_CN.GB2312 GB2312 and zh_CN.GBK GBK.
These locales have vanished, and only EUC and Big5 are left.
This is rather serious, because every single piece of software which
depends on SJIS and GB2312 now displays as totally corrupt text. It also
also made it impossible to run software from these locales in Wine.
Bug #26586 sounds similar to this situation. Did someone make the huge
mistake of nuking out locales from the langpack-locales file again? If
so, you just screwed up Ubuntu for all of us international users :(
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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April 15 Feisty updates break locales SJIS, GB2312, GBK and GB18030
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106919
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