Comment 2 for bug 576162

Hi David

The language settings are two things.

One concerns with what kind of currency is being used, what kind of decimal
point etectera. This is usually referred to as "locale". The locale should
be used only for how to display things like year-date-format, thousand
separator, and so on.

The other thing is what language is used in menus, for example the Ubuntu
desktop menus, but also the language used in applications like Open Office
or Firefox.

The reason why there are two different settings is that someone using
Russian menus may want to use an american locale if they are working a lot
US units like inches and feet. It might even be that someone wants to
customize the locale settings.

In my case, I prefer to English menus and Japanese locale to get currencies
and separators right. But if I change the locale to be Japanese, also the
menus of Firefox change to Japanese. It might be OK, but it is not a correct
behavior. All the other menus in the desktop and so on remin in English.
Only if changing to Japanese menus in the language settings, the menus
should change.

(I have seen this problem for many applications also in Windows XP but
recently most apps are behaving correctly and not deciding the menus from
the locale).

Hope this helps

Martin

2010/5/6 David Planella <email address hidden>

> Martin,
>
> Could you please explain us what do you mean with "English menus and a
> Japanese locale"? How do you set the two different languages?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Note that this might be related to bug 553162, for which we've been
> getting a lot of duplicates recently.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-translations
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Firfox menu language selected by LOCALE and not be MENU-language
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576162
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