Comment 5 for bug 866062

Another disadvantage of ~/.profile is that bash doesn't always read it. In fact this is noted at the top of that file itself (at least in my version).
I have some problems with the regional language settings (I want time/date in Dutch but text messages in English), but when I set the regional settings (with xubuntu's Applications > Settings > Language Support), suddenly Firefox and other things started to be in Dutch as well. In a terminal, far too many LC_* settings were suddenly nl_NL.UTF-8, according to the locale command. For a proper bug report, I wanted to reproduce this in a clean test account but I couldn't.
I suspect now that the fact that I have a ~/.bash_login file has something to do with it (so ~/.profile isn't read, or isn't always read, or something).
It's annoying that one can only test this by logging out; I can't quite seem to reproduce it in the test login either.