Public bug reported: (I origionally submitted this bug to KDE, but I was told it was a Kubuntu problem: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342288 . This also may be related to bug #1322968)
I was playing around with the prefered languages setting, and I briefly put Russian in the list along with American English. However, even when I removed Russian, Russian still showed up all over the place. I found that the LANGUAGE environment variable was set to "en:ru:en" (which sometimes overrode the fact that LANG was correctly set to "en_US.UTF-8"). After much searching, I found that LANGUAGE was being set to "en:ru:en" in ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh: $ cat ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh export LANGUAGE=en:ru:en export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 So, LANG is being set correctly, but LANGUAGE is not. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: systemsettings 4:4.11.12-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-30.40-generic 3.16.7-ckt3 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Fri Feb 20 11:38:13 2015 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/systemsettings InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-14 (798 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: kde-workspace UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-11-18 (93 days ago) ** Affects: kde-workspace (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug third-party-packages utopic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1423995 Title: LANGUAGE is set incorrectly in ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-workspace/+bug/1423995/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs