Ubuntu
localechooser package

Gnome terminal uses offensive words like "colours"

Bug #43610 reported by Adam Petaccia
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localechooser (Ubuntu)
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Medium
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Bug Description

In gnome terminal, under edit --> current profile, even though my locale is en_US.utf8, I see the English English spelling of colour, rather than the American English: color. This is odd, because while the check box below also reads "Use colours from system theme", I see at the bottom "Note: Terminal applications have these colors available to them".

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Adam Petaccia (mighmos) wrote : A screenshot of the conflicting names

I didn't see an en_US transaltions file under rosetta, so I just filed this bug.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. What is the value of LANGUAGE to your environment? (echo $LANGUAGE). Does setting LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 makes a difference?

Changed in gnome-terminal:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Adam Petaccia (mighmos) wrote :

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echo $LANGUAGE
en_US:en_GB:en
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setting the variable before hand doesn't make a difference

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

how do you set the language change?

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Adam Petaccia (mighmos) wrote :

% LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 gnome-terminal

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

do you run it from an already running g-t? if that's the case it'll detect the running instance and don't change that, you can run it with --disable-factory to force a new instance

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Adam Petaccia (mighmos) wrote :

Yes I did. This time I launched it from an x-term (your way works as well) and "colors" is spelled correctly.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Marking as duplicate of bug #10822 than. You may want to change your LANGUAGE to /etc/environment

Changed in gnome-terminal:
assignee: desktop-bugs → nobody
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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