strace shows that there's no language file for pidgin on my system:
...
open("/usr/share/locale/es_ES.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/es_ES.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/es.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/es.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/es_ES.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY)
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/es_ES.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY) =
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/es.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY) =
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/es.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/es/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
...
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[gutsy] Incorrect language on startup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155112
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