[Bug 1653555] Re: Language settings stuck for KDE apps

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

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, and it ignores it
completely. So if I start Filezilla from terminal like this:

LANGUAGE=de filezilla

I don't get a German UI. To get a German UI I need to do either of:

LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 filezilla

or

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 filezilla

But you seem to be talking about some app(s) which does understand
LANGUAGE. The explanation why the GUI isn't German in that case might
simply be that the German translations are missing. It would be good if
you could confirm that. (Letting us know which app you are talking about
might help too.)

You did a mistake initially: You removed Arabic without first having
wiped out all Arabic components in the settings. That's something which
Language Support does not expect. It would be nice in this case to have
a feature which would have prevented you from removing Arabic.

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Title:
  Language settings stuck for KDE apps

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  On my Ubuntu 16.04 system, updates as of today, after switching my
  system language from german to arabic and later back using the unity-
  control-center, KDE apps got stuck to arabic language (all GUI
  elements right-to-left text in arabic language). All other apps open
  in german language.

  I now completely removed arabic from the language list (unchecked the
  box), but KDE apps still open using arabic language.

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