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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653555 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1653555/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
