For crying out loud, I just spent a whole evening trying to figure out why the Gnome's Sensor Applet, which docks to the panel, does not work correctly and shows an error "Error compiling URL regex" instead of CPU core temperatures ?!?
The reason was simple - the function
libsensors_plugin_init() within libsensors-plugin.c used regex which included [a-z0-9] in it and since in the alphabet of the Estonian language the letter "z" comes right after letter "s", any letters following them ("tuvxyz") will be excluded with the [a-z] regex. This included the "T" in "Core 0 Temp", so there you have it - "Error compiling URL regex" !Aw gawd, I thought we are over this stupidity, but apparently not. Nobody probably knows the extent of this
[a-z] bug and all the languages which are affected by it...So the bottom line is:
Do not use your own language as the UI language if you want a working system!!!
3 comments:
just use the plain old english! :)
@Anton: that's true. fortunately KDE's UI language can be switched without messing with the console LANG parameter! :-)
The new and quite elegant solution to this is to choose your language, but have the following lines in .profile:
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
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