Hello, Thunderbird does not respect LINGUAS=en_GB enough. I've compiled Thunderbird with LINGUAS=en_GB, but my dates are still showing in en_US format (mm/dd/yy), rather than in en_GB format (dd/mm/yy). As a work-around, one can set LC_TIME=en_GB before launching Thunderbird, but surely this should be fixed further upstream than my local user environment. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. LINGUAS=en_GB emerge mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird 2. launch Thunderbird (through menu, or command line) 3. Observe date/time format Actual Results: Dates are shown in American format: mm/dd/yy Expected Results: Dates are shown in British format: dd/mm/yy
Actually, the LANG and LC_* variables are important in this case, not the LINGUAS. So it probably works just like it should. Just for reference, post your locale settings.
Sorry, I probably made the impression that I know more about this than I actually do. Is this what you were after? dan@tui ~ $ emerge --info | grep ^L LANG="C" LINGUAS="en_GB" dan@tui ~ $
Try to set LC_ALL=en_GB in your user environment via bashrc or profile. IIRC LINGUAS just lists what is supported.
Isn't this the same work-around that I described in my original post? Yes, LC_ALL is different to LC_TIME, but the problem still remains; or have I misunderstood something? With LC_TIME (or LC_ALL) set to "en_GB" in the environment from which Thunderbird is launched, things look correct. My expectation was that setting LINGUAS=en_GB during compilation would make things look like en_GB, not en_US (or perhaps "C"). If that's not the point of setting a LINGUAS variable in portage, can someone please point me towards the documentation for its proper use?
Well...the LINGUAS stuff is just for the langpack stuff, not for changing anything in the environment...probably upstream should change the date/time stuff depending on the useragent.locale we're using... Can you try with -bin? This is really for upstream, we can't do nothing...
Tried with -bin and got the same results. Sounds like a bug for upstream to me too.
So, how does one report this upstream?
I compile with flags LINGUAS="en fr en_GB fr_FR en_US" and run this in my env (.xinitrc): export LC_ALL="en_GB.iso885915" export LANG="en_GB.iso885915" and TB shows dates properly. Please try to recompile and report back. Also say which TB version produces this problem for you, ans post your full emerge --info, and locale -a
If you want to see this fixed you will have to get with the langpack maintainer upstream and ask them to fix it in the language pack.
