[Bug 1084745] Re: Gnome displays wrong language

[Rüdiger Kupper]

Thanks Gunnar for the explanation, I see now where I misunderstood the
GUI.

Jeremy as pretty much hit the point as to what my misunderstanding was.
Let the paraphrase what my intention was choosing this setup. 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.

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.

It's not at all obvious that "English (US)" only contains the strings
that differ from "English". The only way that this language set makes
sense is to *always* chose "English" as the second language. And if this
is so, the content of "English" could as well be included into "English
(US)".

I believe that this should be changed (as Jeremy suggested).

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Title:
  Gnome displays wrong language

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
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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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