On 2012-12-11 19:27, Rüdiger Kupper wrote:
> What I intended to say to Ubuntu was:
>
> "Use the English language everywhere, and if there's a difference
> between UK and US English, please utilize the US variant. Only in the
> (very rare) cases, where there's *no English translation at all*
> available, among all other languages, chose the German translation."
>
> Please tell me how I would indicate this choice with the existing GUI.
You can't. And it's not a GUI issue, really. The LANGUAGE environment
variable is populated in accordance with the GUI, but the resulting
display language is determined by gettext and the translations.
> To phrase it the other way round: My expectation was that "English (US)"
> contains all the usual English strings, with only small variations where
> there's a difference between UK and US English.
Well, as you know now, it doesn't.
I, too, like Jeremy's idea. Reopening the bug and changing the affected
package (again).
** Package changed: language-selector (Ubuntu) => accountsservice
(Ubuntu)
** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
** Summary changed:
- Gnome displays wrong language
+ Unexpected display language
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1084745
Title:
Unexpected display language
Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Gnome displays German language, although English (US) is selected as primary
language. See attached screenshot.
(I have rebooted twice since setting language to English).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome 1:3.0+6ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 29 22:38:03 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-11-28 (732 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: meta-gnome3
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-20 (39 days ago)
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