System ignores locale/language setting [solved?]

Question

Hi
I updated my system a few days ago and since then all gtk2/3 applications ignores language settings. I have set correct locale in /etc/locale.conf, /etc/locale.gen (I haven't changed it since installation), locale command also returns correct values. Even if I force locale from command line (by changing LANG or LC_ALL), apps are still in english.
When the problem appears I had Cinnamon desktop, but i tried also Gnome and Kde - same effect (in Kde problem affects gtk apps), I also tried to change login manager (lxdm, lightdm, gdm, kdm), also without positive result. Clearing user config also doesn't help. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE: It seems whole system ignores locale (in kde I just can manually select custom locale and then it works in kde/qt apps), including console apps (I just didn't notice that before). Strange thing is that Thunderbird has also correct language settings although it is not kde/qt app (in contrast to e.g firefox, which even ignores general.useragent.locale variable).
Last edited by Noctivivans (2013-09-16 23:24:36)

Answer 1

locale-gen
Generating locales...
pl_PL.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
locale
LANG=pl_PL.UTF8
LC_CTYPE="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_NUMERIC="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_TIME="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_COLLATE="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_MONETARY="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_MESSAGES="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_PAPER="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_NAME="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_ADDRESS="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_TELEPHONE="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_ALL=
locale -a
C
pl_PL.utf8
POSIX
I tried e.g. invoke
LANG=pl_PL.UTF8 galculator
from command line.
Last edited by Noctivivans (2013-09-15 23:00:47)