country language is sometimes used instead of selected one

[Laure]

I clean-installed Ubuntu 13.10 in English on my computer and set my location as "Geneva" (a Swiss city) with my keyboard as "Swiss-French". However, certain programs default to German instead of English : TexWorks, TexMaker, and also the data+time app in my sidebar defaulted to German.

I haven't had this issue with any of the the previous versions of Ubuntu, including 12.04 and 12.10.

This is a common conception mistake where modern programs expect people and countries to have one language only (hence German for Switzerland, even though the country is multilingual): they use the country instead of the user settings as reference.

I've seen the issue with:
 - texworks : 0.5~svn1288-1 (installed via apt-get)
 - texmaker: 4.0.3-2 (installed via apt-get)
 - indicator-datetime: 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1 (installed with Ubuntu 13.10)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.205.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Wed Dec 18 16:59:21 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-12 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This is not a bug about the package that performs release upgrades.

[John Kim (kotux)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop ISO of the development release - Trusty Tahr. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help