The GUI in Language Support is not a simple language *switcher*, but
it's designed to also maintain the LANGUAGE priority list and gives you
the opportunity to determine one or more fallback languages. Did you
read Language Support Help?
So if the LANGUAGE items were:
ar:de_DE:en_GB:en
and you t
Also it has nothing to do with missing language support: Kaffeine for
example, which was arabic before, now switched to English after my fix.
But it sports some language settings in it's own help menu, which can be
used to switch to german.
So this was no fallback behaviour, but just buggy selecti
I made no mistake, I deleted arabic from the language list AFTER
switching back to german, relogin and rebooting, hoping at each step
that the apps would switch back to german. Only after all that fails, I
removed arabic from the list, with still no effect.
So there is definitely a bug in language
Thanks for the additional info. I would suggest that you click the Help
button on the Language Support GUI to understand better the purpose of
the LANGUAGE environment variable.
It should be noted that not all applications understand LANGUAGE. For
instance, I have Filezilla (KDE app) installed, an
Just a guess: Using 'ar' of de_DE:ar:en_GB:en could be explained by
alphabetic ordering of the languages somewhere.
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Title:
Language settings stu
I already fixed the problem.
The locale indeed showed a remaining 'ar' at LANGUAGE, like:
LANGUAGE=de_DE:ar:en_GB:en
After exhaustive search, I found this LANGUAGE definition in
~/.pam_environment. I changed it there, logged out and in again, and now
KDE apps are in english (despite the main la
Just for completeness: locale before fixing it was:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=de_DE:ar:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF
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Title:
Language settings stuck for KDE apps
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Please open a terminal window, run the locale command, and show us what
it outputs.
** Package changed: unity-control-center (Ubuntu) => language-selector
(Ubuntu)
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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