Bug 472042

Summary:	mail-client/thunderbird-17.0.6, www-client/firefox-17.0.6 - LC_MESSAGES overrides langpack setting
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	jer
Priority:	Normal
Version:	10.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://forums-web2.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6310702.html?sid=7d24db1f2834a049923da620b97085f5#6310702
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Description Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2013-06-01 21:12:34 UTC

LINGUAS="de" having set, firefox and thunderbird both neatly install their German language pack. They even come with it enabled by default - however, all of the interface keeps speaking English to the linguistically ungifted. Not happy with this, simply dis-/enabling the language pack does not have any effect at all. After some head scratching it turns out there is one system setting responsible for this:

$ cat /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"

Naturally, I don't want to have system messages in any other language than English, however it seems that firefox and thunderbird take that variable into account at startup.

Taken from the URL, changing the following settings in about:config solved it for me:

-general.useragent.locale;en-US
+general.useragent.locale;de-AT
-intl.locale.matchOS;true
+intl.locale.matchOS;false

I am not sure if there could be a sane default value for those that works for everyone. An elog message based on LINGUAS and LC_MESSAGE could suffice.

Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2017-08-26 17:57:26 UTC

If you feel I have closed your bug and it is still a current issue, please reopen and update it completely. We will not work bugs that have no ebuild in tree any longer or can not be reproduced with a current system.

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