Public bug reported: As of today, my locale changed for some unknown reason. I assume a apt upgrade, but I actually don't know.
It used to be English South Africa (en_ZA), now it's Afrikaans South Africa (af_ZA) While I understand Afrikaans, and I have 29 locales installed, I don't understand why it was changed. I also don't know where to change it back. I've tried to dpkg reconfigure locales, and checked /etc/default/locale. /etc/default/locale is set to en_ZA.UTF-8 $LANG is af_ZA.UTF-8 on login $LC_* is en_US.UTF-8 (which is wrong for en_ZA) /etc/environment contains no LANG, LC_, etc. locale: LANG=af_ZA.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=af:en_US:en LC_CTYPE="af_ZA.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="af_ZA.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="af_ZA.UTF-8" LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL= I expect the environment variables of new logins to match /etc/default/locale. That file is owned by root, readable by everyone, and unmodified in almost 3 years. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: locales 2.13+git20120306-3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: 4c35a9d722052b5a55114f98690e7808 CheckboxSystem: b633b4f40868d491c2ae5b50030ce6f3 Date: Tue Oct 23 12:22:39 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: langpack-locales UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-10 (13 days ago) ** Affects: langpack-locales (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 quantal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to langpack-locales in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070284 Title: Locale is set wrong Status in “langpack-locales” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: As of today, my locale changed for some unknown reason. I assume a apt upgrade, but I actually don't know. It used to be English South Africa (en_ZA), now it's Afrikaans South Africa (af_ZA) While I understand Afrikaans, and I have 29 locales installed, I don't understand why it was changed. I also don't know where to change it back. I've tried to dpkg reconfigure locales, and checked /etc/default/locale. /etc/default/locale is set to en_ZA.UTF-8 $LANG is af_ZA.UTF-8 on login $LC_* is en_US.UTF-8 (which is wrong for en_ZA) /etc/environment contains no LANG, LC_, etc. locale: LANG=af_ZA.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=af:en_US:en LC_CTYPE="af_ZA.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="af_ZA.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="af_ZA.UTF-8" LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL= I expect the environment variables of new logins to match /etc/default/locale. That file is owned by root, readable by everyone, and unmodified in almost 3 years. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: locales 2.13+git20120306-3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: 4c35a9d722052b5a55114f98690e7808 CheckboxSystem: b633b4f40868d491c2ae5b50030ce6f3 Date: Tue Oct 23 12:22:39 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: langpack-locales UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-10 (13 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/1070284/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp