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localectl set-locale fails with "Failed to issue method call: Invalid Locale data." if locale is passed directly #6070

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mbiebl opened this issue Jun 1, 2017 · 0 comments
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localectl set-locale fails with "Failed to issue method call: Invalid Locale data." if locale is passed directly #6070

mbiebl opened this issue Jun 1, 2017 · 0 comments
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locale RFE 🎁 Request for Enhancement, i.e. a feature request

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mbiebl commented Jun 1, 2017

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systemd version the issue has been seen with

v231 (Fedora 25)
v232 (Debian stretch)

$ localectl list-locales 
C.UTF-8
de_DE.utf8
en_US.utf8

$ localectl set-locale en_US.utf8
Failed to issue method call: Invalid Locale data.

I know that the man page says to use "LANG=en_US.utf8" and this works, but this is unintuitive as shown by this bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798464.

Given the output of list-locales it's not surprising that users feed that directly to set-locale.
We should allow localectl set-locale C.UTF-8
@mbiebl mbiebl added locale RFE 🎁 Request for Enhancement, i.e. a feature request labels Jun 1, 2017
yuwata added a commit to yuwata/systemd that referenced this issue May 31, 2018
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locale: assume locale is for LANG= when variable name is not specified
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Closes systemd#6070.
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