Bug 254214 – firefox's LINGUAS list in package.use does not work correctly

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description denis 2009-01-08 12:06:33 UTC]

My system's default language is English, and I needed to have different languages available for Firefox.
This is the relevant flags from /etc/portage/package.use:

www-client/mozilla-firefox linguas_en linguas_en_GB linguas_en_US linguas_ru linguas_zh linguas_zh_CN lingaus_zh_TW linguas_nn_NO java custom-optimization

I expected the default language to be the first in the LINGUAS list, but it turned out to be Russian (????).
Why ?

www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5

[Comment 1 Serkan Kaba (RETIRED) 2009-01-08 13:02:25 UTC]

Thank you for the report. It looks like a problem of Firefox itself not handling multiple language packs properly. Assigning to maintainers.

[Comment 2 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2009-01-08 13:57:42 UTC]

Please set the languages in the LINGUAS variable on /etc/make.conf, for example:
LINGUAS="en_GB en_US ru zh_CN zh_TW nn_NO"

[Comment 3 denis 2009-01-08 18:52:03 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Please set the languages in the LINGUAS variable on /etc/make.conf, for
> example:
> LINGUAS="en_GB en_US ru zh_CN zh_TW nn_NO"
> 

Hello, 
So it is not possible to set it individualy for specific application (i.e. firefox here)?
I'm unwilling to set this globally for all applications (perhaps for wrong reasons. for some apps i just want one language support).

[Comment 4 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2009-01-08 19:06:01 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Please set the languages in the LINGUAS variable on /etc/make.conf, for
> > example:
> > LINGUAS="en_GB en_US ru zh_CN zh_TW nn_NO"
> > 
> 
> Hello, 
> So it is not possible to set it individualy for specific application (i.e.
> firefox here)?
> I'm unwilling to set this globally for all applications (perhaps for wrong
> reasons. for some apps i just want one language support).
> 

Nope, USE are sorted alphabetically.