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java interpreter does not honor LC_CTYPE or LC_MESSAGES

Bug #541532 reported by Per Ångström
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openjdk-6 (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

My locale is this:
LANG=en_US.utf8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8
LC_NUMERIC=sv_SE.utf8
LC_TIME=sv_SE.utf8
LC_COLLATE=sv_SE.utf8
LC_MONETARY=sv_SE.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
LC_PAPER=sv_SE.utf8
LC_NAME=sv_SE.utf8
LC_ADDRESS=sv_SE.utf8
LC_TELEPHONE=sv_SE.utf8
LC_MEASUREMENT=sv_SE.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=sv_SE.utf8
LC_ALL=

I therefore expect servertool's language to be English. However, this is how it looks:
-----------------
Välkommen till Java IDL Server Tool
skriv kommandona vid prompten

servertool >
-----------------

In other words, it's in Swedish.

It looks like it uses LC_CTYPE, which I think is wrong.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: c2d78d7690d0fab80ba77c674de4d6a9
CheckboxSystem: 90b928d283473e9c089e730778bbd3da
Date: Thu Mar 18 22:27:26 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b18~pre2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: openjdk-6
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

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Per Ångström (autark) wrote :
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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

> It looks like it uses LC_CTYPE

why do you guess at LC_CTYPE, and not, e.g. LC_MESSAGES?
please check yourself, which var triggers

Changed in openjdk-6 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Per Ångström (autark) wrote : Re: [Bug 541532]

Matthias Klose wrote:
>> It looks like it uses LC_CTYPE
 Actually, I did experiment changing LC_CTYPE to something else, and got
another language, so I shouldn't have been so vague.

Changed in openjdk-6 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Per Ångström (autark) wrote : Re: servertool uses wrong locale

By the way, my LC_MESSAGES is en_US.utf8.

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

starting with
  LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=de_DE servertool
starts in english, but adding the encoding ".utf8" does give the wrong result

Changed in openjdk-6 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)
summary: - servertool uses wrong locale
+ java interpreter does not honor LC_CTYPE or LC_MESSAGES
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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

This is the same for any Java application that I launch (the jitsi VoIP client, for example).

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