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  1. Bug #553162
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 553162

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asala (asala) wrote : Re: GDM and language-selector should agree on setting the LANG variable

I am also experiencing this on 64 bit 10.04 final, upgrading from 9.10.
Lots of perl "locale" errors on the terminal while upgrading... then,
gnome-language-selector unusable (window disappeared half a second after launch), until I changed (I think) export LC_ALL=C, did sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
and then managed to run gnome-language-selector.
Anyway, now EVERYTHING (gnome menus, calendar, firefox, bash window, ...) is in English except a handful of applications ("update manager", "about gnome") which are half-english half Spanish.
>echo $LANG
 ca_ES.utf8

>echo $LANGUAGE
es_ES:ca:es:en_GB:en

>echo $GDM_LANG
ca_ES.utf8

>cat .dmrc

[Desktop]
Language=ca_ES.utf8
Layout=es

and gnome menus in English (Appliations, Places, Systems) keep appearing whatever language I choose in the login screen.
This is a show-stopper for people which does not speak English (my father is happy with ubuntu 9.10 but I don't dare to upgrade should he lose Spanish support): an operating system which does not speak your language is almost as useless as one that hangs.