Comment 0 for bug 1262272

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 but 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)