Hmmm...
I agree this is probably not a bug but a user support problem. Let me add a comment: I chose to use $LANG to set the locale since that seems to be the way default install configures used by Debian system. Hank, if you are facing this issue on some default install system without violating my recommendation, let is know your desktop etc. Please run the following to check: $ locale $ echo "XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP='$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP'" Report it back to this bug Hank, anyway did you read on to the last part of 1.5.2 first: See locale(5) and locale(7) for "$LANG" and related environment variables. [Note] Note I recommend you to configure the system environment just by the "$LANG" variable and to stay away from "$LC_*" variables unless it is absolutely needed. I am pretty sure your system doesn't follow my recommendation. FYI: locale(7) describes: 1. If there is a non-null environment variable LC_ALL, the value of LC_ALL is used. 2. If an environment variable with the same name as one of the categories above exists and is non-null, its value is used for that category. 3. If there is a non-null environment variable LANG, the value of LANG is used.
