[regression] hdate-applet shows English month when using he_IL in its preferences

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Binary package hint: hdate-applet

This is a regression. I use an en_US locale for my base system, but prefer hdate-applet to show the Hebrew date in Hebrew (including Hebrew numerals), so within the hdate-applet preferences I set the locale to he_IL. A month or two ago, I think, is when I noticed that the month no longer displays in Hebrew but in English, as per the attached screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: hdate-applet 0.15.11-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-10.24-generic-pae 2.6.37-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-10-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 19 14:15:30 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SourcePackage: hdate-applet

[MikeR (mike-rechtman)]

When I want to see the current date as a Hebrew date I try:
$ LANG=he_IL.utf8 hdate
However I then see:
Friday, 4 February 2011, ל' Sh'vat התשע"א
With the month name in English.
The output should (preferably) be *all* Hebrew or else all English
There seems nowhere to configure this.

Using Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04
libhdate version is 1.4.12-1build2
hdate-applet version is 0.15.10-2.1ubuntu1

[MikeR (mike-rechtman)]

Occasionally (It's happened twice, so far) hdate-applet switches to showing the month in English.
What I have found helps: Go into Synaptic and re-install hdate-applet, and the hdate library,
remove hdate-applet from panel, and re-add it back to panet.

Tried it as an act of desperation, and it works as a workaround. *Not pretty*!!

[MikeR (mike-rechtman)]

c.f #3: Keeps happening. Hebrew text lasts till reboot, then problem reappears!

[MikeR (mike-rechtman)]

Hello! Is anyone there?

[MikeR (mike-rechtman)]

Apologies!! it was my bug.

I had Bleachbit installed, configure as a user to keep English and Hebrew localizations -- then run it (Bleachbit) as root, with, of course, different configuration.
Mea culpa.

[MikeR (mike-rechtman)]

I now have two instances of Hdate applet: the first on a Lucid desktop - no problems; date is in Hebrew.
The second on a new installation of Natty - Month name persists in English i.e. "Nisan"
I have installed all the Hebrew fonts I found in the repositories, but can't find how to get Hebrew month names
( Day-of-month appears in hebrew e.g. כ"ה )
I have not purged/deleted any language files.
Any hint is welcome!

~Mike