Ubuntu
language-selector package

LC_MESSAGES is not set

Bug #626722 reported by August Karlstrom
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language-selector (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: language-selector

I use Ubuntu 10.04 which uses language-selector 0.5.8. I have set English as the language for menus and windows and Swedish for numbers, dates and currency amounts. This makes the locale environment variables look like this

$ locale
LANG=sv_SE.utf8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_ALL=

Still, several applications like Firefox and Thunderbird use Swedish for menus and windows. The question is whether this is a bug is in the language selector or a bug in the mentioned applications. Shouldn't the language selector set LC_MESSAGES to English as well?

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August Karlstrom (fusionfile) wrote :

Does anyone agree or disagree?

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

This issue is being discussed together with other similar issues at bug 553162, and I'm going to mark this bug as a duplicate.

The patches I have attached to bug 553162 address the problem you describe, and basically I agree with you even if it is in GDM i suggest that LC_MESSAGES is set.

A quick fix for your specific problem: Try setting en_DK for numbers etc. (That's the setting I had before I started to dig deeper into this issue.)

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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