Can't open any page with mixed user locals
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- desktop, internationalization
Research direction
Start by reproducing the mixed-locale setup described in the issue and inspect the reported flatpak-spawn invalid-byte-sequence log. Compare the behavior and proposed fix in flatpak/flatpak#3712; done means Epiphany loads websites normally after the locale change and relogin.
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Description
What Happened?
Epiphany / GNOME Web won't load any page if you have mixed user locals. Same issue as reported in StackExchange
Steps to Reproduce
- open system settings -> 'language and region' and change 'formats' to a different language and hit 'set language' (the 2nd button)
- logout and log in again
- open epiphany and try to open any website
Expected Behavior
Epiphany won't load any website. It's very inconvenient to explain to a new user why this seems to be a problem. According to the answer provided on StackExchange there is already a fix available: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3712
OS Version
6.x (Odin)
Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
Log Output
jul 18 20:54:55 ASUS-FLOBOOK io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[15636]: flatpak-spawn: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
jul 18 20:54:55 ASUS-FLOBOOK io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[15636]: Try "flatpak-spawn --help" for more information.
jul 18 20:54:55 ASUS-FLOBOOK epiphany[6253]: Web process crashed
Hardware Info
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- Dominant language
- Meson
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- Forks
- 4
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