[Bugs] #4450 sugar UNSP: Sugar needs to be able to launch applications when ~/.i18n missing or corrupt

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#4450: Sugar needs to be able to launch applications when ~/.i18n missing or
corrupt
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    Reporter:  greenfeld                  |          Owner:  erikos                     
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  0.98.x                     
    Severity:  Major                      |       Keywords:                             
Distribution:  OLPC                       |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed                
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Comment(by erikos):

 On the XO, the '.i18n' file is written from
 [http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-utils/tree/usr/sbin/olpc-
 configure#n206 olpc-configure]. It says there that, "these don't need to
 be repeated when we upgrade.", maybe there should be a check if the file
 got corrupted on an upgrade.

 Additionally, the Sugar code should probably be fallback to en_US if the
 default locale can not be retrieved, and even if unlikely to not be set,
 do not assume it is set.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4450#comment:2>
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