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[Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@xxxxxxxx>]

> So i don't understand why you have the default language on
> your system. Is it not all translated ?

Unfortunately, I cannot understand what you're trying to ask.

I'm living in Finland and my mother tongue is Finnish. However, I prefer
English for the UI to better match UI of all the programs I use (some
programs do not have Finnish localizations or the localizations are not
high quality enough for my taste).

However, I'm trying to get ISO compatible experience as much as possible
(including stuff like Monday is the first day of the week, ISO 8601 date
formatting, etc. In addition, I don't want "continental decimal
separator" for numbers despite the fact that it's the "correct"
representation for FI locale and I prefer the Finnish collation order
over some other choices). Hence the locale settings I have set.

The problem I'm reporting is that with my locale settings, OpenShot is
using Finnish translations for some of it's strings despite the fact
that I'm requesting English messages (see LC_MESSAGES environment
variable). I guess it's incorrectly using one of the following
environment variables to set the localization language for messages:
LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_PAPER, LC_NAME, LC_ADDRESS,
LC_TELEPHONE, LC_MEASUREMENT. None of these should change the UI
language.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650910

Title:
  Localization does not respect LC_MESSAGES

Status in OpenShot Video Editor:
  New

Bug description:
  Openshot Video Editor incorrectly uses Finnish user interface localization in following environment:

LC_ADDRESS=fi_FI.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=fi_FI.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=fi_FI.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_DK.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=fi_FI.UTF-8
LC_NAME=fi_FI.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_DK.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=fi_FI.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=fi_FI.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8

As far as I know, LC_MESSAGES should specify user interface text language.