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[David Planella <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marking it as high in the translations project: this has already caused
some confusion to Catalan users not living in the Valencia area.

Both variants are understandable regardless of the region, but choosing
one over the other changes the established (and expected) terminology
users are used to.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877284

Title:
  Language selector sets incorrect values for variables in locales with
  existing @ variants

Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  Triaged
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  It seems that for locales which have got language variants (e.g. ca
  and ca@valencia, sr and sr@latin), language-selector sets the locale-
  related environment variables incorrectly as the variant instead of
  the main language, despite the main language being selected at install
  time.

  Steps to reproduce:

  1. Start a fresh Ubuntu installation
  2. Select Catalan as the language (language code 'ca'), and a location in Spain
  3. Continue the installation until finished
  4. Log in to your new Ubuntu installation
  5. The desktop is translated in the ca@valencia variant of the Catalan locale

  Expected:

  5. The desktop is translated in the main variant of the Catalan
  locale: ca

  Here's what such a system has for a locale after installation. Notice
  the  LANGUAGE,  LC_CTYPE,  LC_COLLATE, LC_MESSAGES variables being set
  to the incorrect values.

  $ locale
   LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=ca@valencia:en
   LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia
   LC_NUMERIC="ca_ES.UTF-8"
   LC_TIME="ca_ES.UTF-8"
   LC_COLLATE=ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia
   LC_MONETARY="ca_ES.UTF-8"
   LC_MESSAGES=ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia
   LC_PAPER="ca_ES.UTF-8"
   LC_NAME="ca_ES.UTF-8"
   LC_ADDRESS="ca_ES.UTF-8"
   LC_TELEPHONE="ca_ES.UTF-8"
   LC_MEASUREMENT="ca_ES.UTF-8"

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: language-selector (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct 18 11:54:23 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110319)
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (2 days ago)

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