USC: Wrong language shown in Ubuntu Software Center

What does the translation guys say on this. Is software center completely translatable?

Anders, could you tell us what the output of the 'locale' command is?

I'm thinking that this could be related to bug 553162

This is the output of the locale command:

LANG=en_US.utf8
LANGUAGE=en
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=

When I look in the Ubuntu Software Center now the text seem like they all are in English (which I expect). Still I am not sure that this is solved though... What do you think. Strange... Could be related to the bug you mentioned because I had the exact same problems when setting the languages. The only remaining issue was the leftovers in Software Center....

Is this software-center related? It looks like the language is set to English

It seems that the issue here is that Software Center only works as expected when using the LANGUAGE variable

Some tests, running in a non-English locale [1]:

$ LC_ALL=C software-center
$ LANG=C software-center

Expected: Software Center runs in the default POSIX locale (US English)
Result: The menus are in English, the UI is in the user's locale

$ LANGUAGE=en software-center

Expected: Software Center runs in the default POSIX locale (US English)
Result: as expected, the whole application runs in English

[1] Here's my current locale:

LANG=ca_ES.utf8
LANGUAGE=ca_ES:ca:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_TIME="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_PAPER="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_NAME="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ca_ES.utf8"
LC_ALL=

Here, software center is english but the package names and descriptions are spanish (!) even though I have switched from spanish to english long ago (see screenshot). And there are no traces of ES in the locale output!

$ locale
LANG=de_DE.utf8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.utf8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.utf8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.utf8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ALL=

The same for me: I installed the system in Italian, but later on I turned it in English, but the name and description of the sofware center are still in Italian. (Maverick)

Looks same as bug #434601

this is still actual in oneiric. i ran "LANGUAGE=en software-center", but still some package names were in Russian.

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

It is not only software center but also Update Manager. Sometimes even authorization window pulls a message in the "regional settings" language rather than GUI language.

I had this problem in 12.04 LTS Precise.

System installed in English, but later played with locale and/or GUI regional settings. After a while, I reverted everything to English, but software-center still used French for the short descriptions of packages (and English for the full descriptions).

I deleted "/var/cache/software-center/" and "/var/cache/apt-xapian-index/", which made software-center crash.

Running

    sudo apt-get --reinstall install software-center

fixed it, and everything is in the correct language.

I think you got this bug because you have more than one language listed in the locale. So, to fix it, please follow these steps:-

1- go to the start menu and click on the System settings
2- from the pup up window click on Locale
3- Look at the Preferred Languages: section of the window
4- if there is a language other than English or your preferred language, just move it to the Available Languages: by highlighting it
and clicking on the left arrow.

That should fix the problem