Language selection fails to set all locale environment variables correctly.

[Spang]

- Migration from 9.10 to 10.04.
- Default language set to dutch nl-be. (family computer)
- My desktop set to us english
- resulting in mixed dutch english gnome ui

When I looked around a bit "locales" command told me that env var LANG was set to us english, but LANGUAGE var was set to nl be. So apparently selecting language (e.g. at login) sets the one but not the other

I was finally able to fix it by adding
export LANGUAGE="en_US.utf8"
to .profile in my home dir.

Took quite a while to find this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: locales 2.11+git20100304-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 3 17:12:16 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: langpack-locales

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I assume you used language-selector for this, i. e. Applications -> Prefs -> Languages ? You need to select both region and language there.

LANGUAGE="en_US.utf8" is invalid, by the way. If you want English, please set LANGUAGE="en".

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

For the case you are still using Ubuntu 10.04, you may want to try backported language-selector and gdm packages that ought to fix the described behavior.

You can enable the whole backports repository
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#How_to_use

or download and install the applicable .deb files, which e.g. are available in my PPA
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/lang-backports

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for language-selector (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]