I see. Please just let me say that while the installer writes to /etc/default/locale, it does not touch ~/.profile AFAIK. I don't think the installer even tries to get it 100% right in all cases, but it rather trusts that the user easily can fine tune the settings via language-selector. Possibly the discussion at bug #590108 sheds some light on this topic.
Also, if the possibly incorrect preferences were set at installation, this should probably be a ubiquity rather than a language-selector bug. I leave it to you to change that if you agree. Rgds, Gunnar -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877284 Title: Language selector sets incorrect values for variables in locales with existing @ variants Status in Ubuntu Translations: Incomplete Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: It seems that for locales which have got language variants (e.g. ca and ca@valencia, sr and sr@latin), language-selector sets the locale- related environment variables incorrectly as the variant instead of the main language, despite the main language being selected at install time. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start a fresh Ubuntu installation 2. Select Catalan as the language (language code 'ca'), and a location in Spain 3. Continue the installation until finished 4. Log in to your new Ubuntu installation 5. The desktop is translated in the ca@valencia variant of the Catalan locale Expected: 5. The desktop is translated in the main variant of the Catalan locale: ca Here's what such a system has for a locale after installation. Notice the LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MESSAGES variables being set to the incorrect values. $ locale LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=ca@valencia:en LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia LC_NUMERIC="ca_ES.UTF-8" LC_TIME="ca_ES.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia LC_MONETARY="ca_ES.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES=ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia LC_PAPER="ca_ES.UTF-8" LC_NAME="ca_ES.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="ca_ES.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="ca_ES.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="ca_ES.UTF-8" ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: language-selector (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 18 11:54:23 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110319) SourcePackage: language-selector UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+bug/877284/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
