Comment 8 for bug 1240058

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote : Re: [Bug 1240058] Re: UI uses chinese, french and english simultaneously

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 07:12:07PM -0000, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Ian Lane wrote:
> > Yeah, so the bug is probably that the languages are prepended rather
> > than replacing the top element.
>
> That's not a bug. It has been the way LANGUAGE has been handled in
> Ubuntu for several years. The LANGUAGE environment variable is a
> priority list, and language-selector has an interface to maintain it.
>
> There are probably other explanations to the behavior described by Jean-
> Baptiste Lallement. Please don't mess with the the way accountsservice
> deals with LANGUAGE without further investigation. Even if language-
> selector-gnome will be replaced in Ubuntu, it will still be used by
> Xubuntu and Lubuntu.

I'm not suggesting that. In u-s-s we don't have an interface to maintain
a priority list, only to select one language.

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