Software center does not respect locale settings

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please run:
$ python -c 'import locale; print locale.getdefaultlocale()'
and let me know what that outputs?

Will synaptic display package descriptions in swedish as well or is it just software-center?

Synaptic displays everyhing in english.

$ python -c 'import locale; print locale.getdefaultlocale()'
('sv_SE', 'UTF8')

So that returns sv_SE, don't know why. But all other apps are in english (even other python apps like Pitivi) except for the beta of Google Chrome that also shows some swedish strings.

Output of locale:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I have configured my system to use english language, swedish keyboard and swedish measurements and dates and so on.

Thanks, the below patch should fix it:

=== modified file 'softwarecenter/db/update.py'
--- softwarecenter/db/update.py 2009-09-30 13:32:12 +0000
+++ softwarecenter/db/update.py 2009-10-06 11:18:41 +0000
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
                     return translated_value
         # then try the i18n version of the key (in [de_DE] or
         # [de]
- locale = getdefaultlocale()[0]
+ locale = getdefaultlocale(('LANGUAGE','LANG','LC_CTYPE','LC_ALL'))[0]
         if locale:
             if self.has_option_desktop("%s[%s]" % (key, locale)):
                 return self.get(self.DE, "%s[%s]" % (key, locale))

I commtied it to bzr and it will be part of the next upload.

Thanks a lot!