The problem ist, that at the moment it is neccessary to have the locale
definition in two different places:

/etc/environment
/etc/default/locale

This is redundant and confusing.

the first is used by gdm (and therefore for the whole gnome-session), for 
example.
the later is used by /etc/pam.d/login (in addition to /etc/environment, but 
/etc/default/locale wins). If you login in a tty, for example.

So the problem is, that LANG has to be adjusted in both places to
successfully switch from one locale to another.

Now, that debian policy says not to use /etc/environmnt all programms
should use /etc/default/locale instead, shouldn't they?

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gdm should not use locale settings from /etc/environment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160984
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