Actually, it seems to be that even after re-installing and purging the packages for the corresponding languages, some trace remains of which ones they were:
$ locale -a C C.UTF-8 fi_FI.utf8 POSIX ...and yet 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' produces: $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales Generating locales... en_AG.UTF-8... done en_AU.UTF-8... done en_BW.UTF-8... done en_CA.UTF-8... done en_DK.UTF-8... done en_GB.UTF-8... done en_HK.UTF-8... done en_IE.UTF-8... done en_IN.UTF-8... done en_NG.UTF-8... done en_NZ.UTF-8... done en_PH.UTF-8... done en_SG.UTF-8... done en_US.UTF-8... done en_ZA.UTF-8... done en_ZM.UTF-8... done en_ZW.UTF-8... done et_EE.UTF-8... done fi_FI.UTF-8... done fr_BE.UTF-8... done fr_CA.UTF-8... done fr_CH.UTF-8... done fr_FR.UTF-8... done fr_LU.UTF-8... done lv_LV.UTF-8... done ru_RU.KOI8-R... done ru_RU.UTF-8... done ru_UA.UTF-8... done sv_FI.UTF-8... done sv_SE.UTF-8... done Generation complete. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924874 Title: Lucid to Precise: language-selector changed my desktop 's default language to Turkish and Latvian To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/924874/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs