Not installed language showing up in available languages list

[Victor Engmark]

In the "Language" tab of the "Language Support" window it shows several variants of English, German, French, Norwegian, and Chinese. If I click "Install / Remove Languages" the checkboxes for English, German, French and Norwegian are all checked. All the Chinese variants are unchecked.

I discovered this while trying to simplify my language selection in an attempt to avoid a reproducible crash in jockey-gtk - I'm suspecting that this discrepancy could have something to do with it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-34.53-generic 3.2.33
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 6 22:24:54 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: language-selector
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

Possibly related jockey-common bug <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/1087457>.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your effort to improve Ubuntu by reporting these observations!

To get rid of the languages you don't need, uncheck them in the "Installed Languages" window and click "Apply Changes".

As regards Chinese, it's a known issue. You can prevent the Chinese item from showing up by opening a terminal window and run:

sudo locale-gen --purge

[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

I don't think it's a duplicate - I never installed Chinese translations in the first place. I have absolutely no knowledge of that language.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Ok, I removed the duplicate mark and changed the affected package to the installer (Ubiquity).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

`sudo locale-gen --purge` actually worked for me. Thanks Gunnar!