On 2012-12-11 19:27, RĂ¼diger Kupper wrote:
> 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.

You can't. And it's not a GUI issue, really. The LANGUAGE environment
variable is populated in accordance with the GUI, but the resulting
display language is determined by gettext and the translations.

> 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.

Well, as you know now, it doesn't.

I, too, like Jeremy's idea. Reopening the bug and changing the affected
package (again).

** Package changed: language-selector (Ubuntu) => accountsservice
(Ubuntu)

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

** Summary changed:

- Gnome displays wrong language
+ Unexpected display language

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