This is a tricky one, since I'm not able to reproduce the behavior you
describe.
I altered my settings to get exactly the same 'locale' output as you:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=zh_CN:en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
Given that, I can start Firefox in English using:
env LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 firefox
and I can start gedit in English using:
env LANGUAGE=en gedit
If that still does not work for you, could you please try:
unset LC_MESSAGES; firefox
and
unset LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE=en; gedit
I explained in bug 553162 why changing LANG may not be sufficient in
Natty. To get a more complete description of how languages and locales
are dealt with in Natty, you may want to read the new help document,
which you can access by clicking the "Help" button in Language Support.
As regards language labels on the login screen, they are displayed in
the system language. If you see them in English, there is probably a
line in your /etc/default/locale file that looks something like:
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
In any case I can't see how it would be related to the problem in this
bug report.
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Language selection at login overrides language selection via env LANG
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