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GhostSquad57 / Steam-Installer-for-Wheezy

Re-write of Valve's deb package. (Orphaned)
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Issue with skandinavian characters #28

Closed Sinihopea closed 10 years ago

Sinihopea commented 10 years ago

Hi!

Less than a month ago I installed the steam-debian installer package to my new Debian Wheezy computer, and noticed that the Steam installed this way has stopped accepting Scandinavian characters ä, ö, and å. I wasn't able to type them anywhere in Steam.

The behavior how the Steam shows characters related to Scandinavian languages also had changed. Like instead of using capital Ä, Ö or Å where it used to, it only showed a small ä, ö, or å. Or it just showed a small empty box.

I pin pointed this to a change where the steam-debian script starts the Steam using LC_ALL=C. This is wrong way to do this, and it causes more problems than it solves with foreign languages and character sets. It's notable that it also broke the CJK-support in Steam. Please remove it from the script!

After I removed the script's LC_ALL=C, I suddenly was able to write my own language. I can only guess how much weird issues this has caused. After I figured this out I was also able to help three of my Finnish friends who use Debian Wheezy and this Steam Installer for Wheezy.

Thanks!

GhostSquad57 commented 10 years ago

@Sinihopea I'm thinking the best course of action would be to remove LC_ALL=C from steam-debian and make note in the Wiki that some users may need LC_ALL=C set. Thank you for reporting this.

GhostSquad57 commented 10 years ago

@Sinihopea Is everything working as expected?

Sinihopea commented 10 years ago

I haven't tried the new package, but if only thing you did was just remove the LC_ALL=C from the script, then I'm sure it works.

I did several things including removal of my .steam folder (after backing up all games) before I took a look at the issue list and read about the issue #27 and then moved on to remove the LC_ALL=C from the steam-debian script at /usr/bin/. And then everything magically just worked.

And my friends said that it also worked for them. And then I came here to write about it.

Thank you for your work!