Review Request 125705: Use LANG for month names in calendar applet

[David Edmundson]

> On Oct. 28, 2015, 8:44 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > So...any word on this?
> 
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>     Re-reading your comment, if i understand it correctly, you claim it is a bug in Qt that it does obey LC_DATE for month names when according to you LC_DATE is only for the formatting and should be using LANG&friends, right? Why not fix it upstream then?
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> Martin Klapetek wrote:
>     I don't claim it's a bug as I simply don't know if it's correct behavior or not, just that the way it works does not suit our intended use case, because we encourage our users to mess with LC_* variables through the Formats KCM, which makes it prone to mixed configurations like LC_DATE=cs_CZ and LANG=en_US.
>     
>     But nevertheless a) David Edmundson has a patch in the works so let's see if they think it's a bug and b) we'd need something for the meantime anyway.

Just uploaded: https://codereview.qt-project.org/139295


- David


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On Oct. 20, 2015, 7:04 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 20, 2015, 7:04 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Plasma.
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> Bugs: 353715
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353715
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> Repository: plasma-framework
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> Description
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> Simple QDate::longMonthName won't do the job as it
> will return the month name using LC_DATE locale which is used
> for date formatting etc. So for example, in en_US locale
> and cs_CZ LC_DATE, it would return Czech month names while
> it should return English ones. So here we force the LANG
> locale and take the month name from that.
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> Diffs
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>   src/declarativeimports/calendar/calendar.cpp 67a08e5 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125705/diff/
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> Testing
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> LC_DATE=cs_CZ
> LANG=en_US
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> Month names in calendar applet are now english.
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Klapetek
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