Bug#834951: gnome-shell: Mixed localizations

[Andreas Kloeckner]

Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:

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> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 15:54:49 -0500 Andreas Kloeckner <inform at tiker.net>
> wrote:
>> Package: gnome-shell
>> Version: 3.20.3-1+b1
>> Severity: minor
>> 
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> 
>> as of recently, gnome-shell has started interspersing English strings with the
>> localized strings that I have otherwise set for my system, leading to
>> bizarre-looking menus like the following:
>> 
>> https://tiker.net/tmp/gnome-shell-mixed-localization.png
>> 
>> Functionally, everything seems unaffected, but it's certainly not fantastic to look at.
>> 
>
> Does your system locale differ from the user locale?
>
> I think what we see here is that systemd user services use the system
> locale (in your case pulseaudio) instead of the system locale.
>
> I assume if you change the system locale to match your user locale
> (dpkg-reconfigure locales) and restart your system, the translations
> should be fixed?
>
> In any case, that isn't really a gnome-shell issue, but deeper down the
> stack. Not sure if it's systemd, dbus-user-session or gnome-session.

Thanks for your response!

System and user locales are the same. However, systemd-localed is
currently refusing to start because of a different issue:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837201

Perhaps that's the root cause...?

Andreas