Comment 1 for bug 237433

1. That confuses me: the å in your post shows up fine in Kubuntu. Does this depend upon the font that text is in?

For the various spelling errors, lack of translated strings, we can only apologise. It relies upon volunteers, and the Norwegian translation is not complete. If you would like to help, please visit: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy

I will leave this as a bug against the installer (I think I've got the right package)--as you say, it should ideally load the correct translations immediately.

You may wish to file (if no-one else already has) a bug about firefox localisation, against firefox.