[Rt-devel] Bug in Date field generation for e-mail

[Jesse Vincent]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:09:56AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> Your observed behavior is the correct behavior.  If you set the LANGuage
> to Russian, then the language will be ... Russian. :)  If you change it
> to "C", it will be C.  That's the whole point of LANG :)

I'd argue that it's _not_ the correct behaviour, since RT has an
internal localization system that it should be paying attention to.


> Anyway, try setting LC_MESSAGES="C" if you don't want messages to be in
> Russian.  Here's a list of the other LC_* environment variables:
> 
> LANG
> LC_CTYPE
> LC_NUMERIC
> LC_TIME
> LC_COLLATE
> LC_MONETARY
> LC_MESSAGES
> LC_PAPER
> LC_NAME
> LC_ADDRESS
> LC_TELEPHONE
> LC_MEASUREMENT
> LC_IDENTIFICATION
> LC_ALL
> 
> Quick example:
> 
> $ echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
> $ date
> Tue Aug 29 02:05:24 CDT 2006
> $ export LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
> $ date
> 2006年  8月 29日 火曜日 02:05:36 CDT
> $ LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" date
> Tue Aug 29 02:06:37 CDT 2006
> 
> Anyway, Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> Jonathan Rockway
> 
> Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > We migrated from 3.4.3 to 3.6.1 and faced the following problem.
> >
> > I have the following variable defined in my environment:
> >
> > LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R
> >
> > This variable is inherited by apache.
> >
> > Now Date field in e-mails generated by RT have day of the week
> > represented in Russian.  This was not the case with 3.4.3 version of RT.
> >
> > I think it's a bug.
> >
> > The workaround is to start apache with LANG=C, but it's only a workaround.
> >
> > Tnanks!
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