Comment 4 for bug 10727

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Øivind Hoel (eruin) wrote :

Okay, this has been bugging me a while too. This is off a pretty fresh hoary
install where nothing language-wise has been altered since installation. During
installation I chose nb_NO (norwegian bokmål) as my language.

Trouble is, and I guess this is what the reporter is experiencing too - not all
programs are entirely translated to norwegian, and this is ofcourse our own
fault. Having danish and swedish as fallback languages for norwegian, though, is
*a lot* more confusing than using plain british english. The languages may be
related (norwegian being a revised form of danish), but more often than not, the
language constructs deviate enough to make a mixed-language desktop very
confusing to use.

My proposal to fix this issue is simply dropping danish and swedish as fallbacks
for norwegian, while keeping the current en_GB:en fallbacks.

My /etc/environment:

LANGUAGE="nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:da:sv:en_GB:en"

LANG=no_NO.UTF-8