Comment 9 for bug 40669

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote : Re: [Bug 40669] Re: Can choose language but not date formats

On 05/26/2010 10:21 AM, Merijn Schering wrote:
> This still doesn;t work in Lucid.
>
> If I select English for the language and Dutch number formatting etc.
> Ubuntu is in English but programs like firefox and openoffice start in
> Dutch...
>
That's a bug in those programs (firefox, oo.o, etc.), they ignore the
LANGUAGE environment variable. There is a bug open for that already.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539761