Bug 40510 - localed should propagate `LANGUAGE` variable as well
Summary: localed should propagate `LANGUAGE` variable as well
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: systemd
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Lennart Poettering
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Reported: 2011-08-31 02:48 UTC by Gioele Barabucci
Modified: 2011-08-31 05:12 UTC (History)
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Description Gioele Barabucci 2011-08-31 02:48:45 UTC 
Currently localed knows about the `LC_*` variables and the `LANG` variable but ignores `LANGUAGE`.

LSB 4.0 describes the `LANGUAGE` variable: it is used, at least by GTK-based applications, to choose the language of the displayed messages.

In my case, my `.profile` file sets

    LANG=it_IT.utf8
    LANGUAGE=en_US:en

because I prefer having an English interface but with European defaults (A4 paper, EUR as currency, Monday as first day of the week, etc.).

The `LANGUAGE` variable is also set by the GNOME's language switching utility.
Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2011-08-31 05:07:20 UTC 
Hmm, what you are trying to do you can do without $LANGUAGE:

LANG=it_IT.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US
Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2011-08-31 05:11:51 UTC 
The GNOME i18n setup tool does not set $LANGUAGE.
Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2011-08-31 05:12:36 UTC 
Nonetheless if I have now update systemd to set support $LANGUAGE is well, even though I presume it's not going to be used by much.

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