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xbmc.getLanguage for "English (US)" broken? - fbacher - 2019-08-29
Running Kodi 18.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 with (shell) LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Kodi Settings:
<setting id="locale.language">resource.language.en_us</setting>
<setting id="locale.country" default="true">USA (12h)</setting>
xbmc.getLanguage(format=xbmc.ISO_639_1, region=True)
yields: "-"
xbmc.getLanguage(format=xbmc.ISO_639_2, region=True)
yields: "-"
xbmc.getLanguage(format=xbmc.ENGLISH_NAME, region=True)
yields: "English (US)-USA (12h)"
The strings from resources/language/resource.language.en_us are read
If I change Settings.xml to:
<setting id="locale.country" default="true">USA (12h)</setting>
<setting id="locale.language" default="true">resource.language.en_gb</setting>
then
xbmc.getLanguage(format=xbmc.ISO_639_1, region=True)
yields: "en-"
xbmc.getLanguage(format=xbmc.ISO_639_2, region=True)
yields: "eng-"
xbmc.getLanguage(format=xbmc.ENGLISH_NAME, region=True)
yields: "English -USA (12h)"
However, the strings from resources/language/resource.language.en_us are NOT read
On my Windows 7 (yeah, really old) gives similar, but different results:
language: English (United States)
xbmc.getLanguage(format=xbmc.ISO_639_1, region=True)
yields: "-us"
xbmc.getLanguage(format=xbmc.ISO_639_2, region=True)
yields: "-usa"
xbmc.getLanguage(format=xbmc.ENGLISH_NAME, region=True)
yields: "English (US)-USA (12h)"
Kodi.log and getLang.py script can be found at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t0ewqd4r2lcqx2m/AABjzmwIbl30-aU36dk9bBZla?dl=0
getLang.py can be run using: kodi-send --action='RunScript("<path to getLang>/getLang.py")'