After upgrading to MythTV 30, I noticed that the interface of mythfrontend
switched from the French language to English, despite having the following
in my ~/.xsession for the mythtv user:
export LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
exec ~/bin/start_mythtv
I noticed a few related error messages in /var/log/syslog:
mythbackend[6606]: I CoreContext mythcorecontext.cpp:272 (Init) Assumed character encoding: fr_CA.UTF-8
mythbackend[6606]: N CoreContext mythcorecontext.cpp:1780 (InitLocale) Setting QT default locale to FR_US
mythbackend[6606]: I CoreContext mythcorecontext.cpp:1813 (SaveLocaleDefaults) Current locale FR_US
mythbackend[6606]: E CoreContext mythlocale.cpp:110 (LoadDefaultsFromXML) No locale defaults file for FR_US, skipping
mythpreviewgen[9371]: N CoreContext mythcorecontext.cpp:1780 (InitLocale) Setting QT default locale to FR_US
mythpreviewgen[9371]: I CoreContext mythcorecontext.cpp:1813 (SaveLocaleDefaults) Current locale FR_US
mythpreviewgen[9371]: E CoreContext mythlocale.cpp:110 (LoadDefaultsFromXML) No locale defaults file for FR_US, skipping
Searching for that non-existent fr_US locale, I found that others have
this in their logs
and that it's apparently set by
QT
as a combination of the language and country codes.
I therefore looked in the database and found the following:
MariaDB [mythconverg]> SELECT value, data FROM settings WHERE value = 'Language';
+----------+------+
| value | data |
+----------+------+
| Language | FR |
+----------+------+
1 row in set (0.000 sec)
MariaDB [mythconverg]> SELECT value, data FROM settings WHERE value = 'Country';
+---------+------+
| value | data |
+---------+------+
| Country | US |
+---------+------+
1 row in set (0.000 sec)
which explains the non-sensical FR-US locale.
I fixed the country setting like this
MariaDB [mythconverg]> UPDATE settings SET data = 'CA' WHERE value = 'Country';
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.093 sec)
Rows matched: 1 Changed: 1 Warnings: 0
After logging out and logging back in, the user interface of the frontend is now
using the fr_CA locale again and the database setting looks good:
MariaDB [mythconverg]> SELECT value, data FROM settings WHERE value = 'Country';
+---------+------+
| value | data |
+---------+------+
| Country | CA |
+---------+------+
1 row in set (0.000 sec)
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