LANGUAGE="ru:en" - портит стройную картину
к стати, в кубунте тоже есть косяк с локализацией,
решилось правкой /etc/default/locale, и автозапуском скрипта
export LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="ru_RU.UTF-8"
Иначе было русифицировано наполовину