Public bug reported: [ Impact ]
When setting "English (US)" as the default language but any other language for region formats, some strings become translated in the region formats language. That happens because "English (US)" translations are often neglected since the original messages are already usually in English (US), and thus the English (US) language pack is lacking several translations; applications then fall back to the second preferred language, which is being set as the language from the chosen region formats. [ Test Plan ] 1. Open Settings > System > Language and Region 2. Set "English (United States)" for Language 3. Set "United Kingdom" for Formats 4. Log-out, Log-in 5. Open Files 6. Verify that the thrash bin location is called "Thrash" and not "Rubbish Bin" [ Where problems could occur ] The accountsservice DBus property `org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.Languages` and the `LANGUAGE=` environment variable now disagree on the list of "languages of interest". That shouldn't be a problem, but side-effects would very much depend on how applications use these two different interfaces. This change is restoring behaviour to 25.10, where I'm not aware of any bugs in this regard. It was never upstream's intention to have the two lists match. [ Other info ] Upstream discussion: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/1969#note_1777400 ** Affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Alessandro Astone (aleasto) Status: In Progress ** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Opinion ** Tags: resolute ** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Opinion ** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Alessandro Astone (aleasto) ** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => resolute-updates ** Description changed: [ Impact ] When setting "English (US)" as the default language but any other language for region formats, some strings become translated in the region formats language. That happens because "English (US)" translations are often neglected since the original messages are already usually in English (US), and thus the English (US) language pack is lacking several translations; applications then fall back to the second preferred language, which is being set as the language from the chosen region formats. [ Test Plan ] 1. Open Settings > System > Language and Region 2. Set "English (United States)" for Language 3. Set "United Kingdom" for Formats 4. Log-out, Log-in 5. Open Files 6. Verify that the thrash bin location is called "Thrash" and not "Rubbish Bin" [ Where problems could occur ] The accountsservice DBus property `org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.Languages` and the `LANGUAGE=` environment variable now disagree on the list of "languages of interest". That shouldn't be a problem, but side-effects would very much depend on how applications use these two different interfaces. This change is restoring behaviour to 25.10, where I'm not aware of any bugs in this regard. It was never upstream's intention to have the two lists match. + + [ Other info ] + + Upstream discussion: + https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/1969#note_1777400 ** Tags added: resolute -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2150215 Title: Some strings are localized using the region format locale To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/2150215/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
