I have a multilanguage system , languages installed in my system (via linguas variable in make.conf) are : en_US en it By default my system is italian but for a particular profile I need my system in english, so in its .bash_profile I set LC_ALL and LINGUAS to "en_US.UTF-8" and "en" , the problem with firefox (and with the others mozilla applications) is that the only way to get firefox in english I must disable italian language pack in Tools->Add-Ons->Language Packs . Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.launch firefox from the "english" profile with also linguas_it use flag enabled. 2. 3. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe -msse2 -msse3 -mmmx" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe -msse2 -msse3 -mmmx" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distcc metadata-transfer parallell-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.jamit.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="it en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=500" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects /usr/portage/local/layman/initng /usr/portage/local/layman/mpd /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/synce /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa amr amrnb amrwb apache2 apm arts asp aspnet audiofile autoipd avahi avi bash-completion beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo boo branding bzip2 c++ cairo caps cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups curl cxx dba dbus devhelp directfb divx4linux dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo examples exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp galago gcj gdbm gif gimp glade glitz gnome gnome-keyring gnustep gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal howl iconv icq id3tag imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 irda isdnlog jabber jack java javascript jpeg junit kde latex ldap libg++ libnotify libwww lisa live lzo mad matroska md5sum midi mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mmx2 mono motif mp2 mp3 mpeg msn mudflap musepack mysql nas nautilus ncurses nls normalize nptl nptlonly nsplugin obex objc odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp oscar oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf pdflib perl php png pnm pnp portaudio posix ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline reflection samba scanner sdl sensord session shorten slang sndfile sockets sourceview speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg svga sysfs tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk totem truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales utf v4l v4l2 valgrind vcd videos vorbis wifi win32codecs wxgtk1 wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xcomposite xine xml xml2 xorg xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INITNG_PLUGINS="service_file also bash_launcher chdir chroot conflict cpout critical ctrlaltdel daemon_clean debug_commands envparser find fmon fstat history idleprobe initctl interactive iparser last limit lockfile logfile netdev netprobe ngc4 ngcs nge pause provide reload renice rlparser simple_launcher stcmd stdout suid syncron syslog sysreq unneeded usplash" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
I found another solution , thanks to Raùl Porcel : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248341#c3 anyway the problem is still there : there isn't a simple way to change mozilla programs localization
I would think that's upstream's problem to fix...
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182175#c2 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 182175 ***
