When running Mozilla Firefox, it is started with a wrong locale, in my case arabic. Behavior started ocurring, since LINGUAS ist set. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2_pre1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.7-verfeiert i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.7-verfeiert i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:00:08 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.6-r1, 2.0.29 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.3-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-frankfurt.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="af ar be_BY bg bn bs ca cs cy da de el en en_GB en_US en_ZA es es_AR es_ES et eu fa fi fr ga ga_IE gu_IN he hi_IN hr hu it ja km ko lt mk nb nb_NO nl nn nr ns pa_IN pl pt pt_BR ro ru rw sh_YU sk sl sr_CS st sv sv_SE sw_TZ th tn tr ts vi xh zh_CN zh_TW zu" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 16bit X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 artworkextra audiofile beagle berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo canvas caps cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk cli crypt cups dbus dga directfb divx4linux djbfft dlloader dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi dynagraph eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd exif extensions fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif glitz gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hpn iconv icu idea imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_wacom ipv6 isdnlog jack jack-tmpfs java javascript jpeg kernel_linux ldap libcaca libclamav libg++ libgda libwww linguas_af linguas_ar linguas_be_BY linguas_bg linguas_bn linguas_bs linguas_ca linguas_cs linguas_cy linguas_da linguas_de linguas_el linguas_en linguas_en_GB linguas_en_US linguas_en_ZA linguas_es linguas_es_AR linguas_es_ES linguas_et linguas_eu linguas_fa linguas_fi linguas_fr linguas_ga linguas_ga_IE linguas_gu_IN linguas_he linguas_hi_IN linguas_hr linguas_hu linguas_it linguas_ja linguas_km linguas_ko linguas_lt linguas_mk linguas_nb linguas_nb_NO linguas_nl linguas_nn linguas_nr linguas_ns linguas_pa_IN linguas_pl linguas_pt linguas_pt_BR linguas_ro linguas_ru linguas_rw linguas_sh_YU linguas_sk linguas_sl linguas_sr_CS linguas_st linguas_sv linguas_sv_SE linguas_sw_TZ linguas_th linguas_tn linguas_tr linguas_ts linguas_vi linguas_xh linguas_zh_CN linguas_zh_TW linguas_zu live logrotate lzo mad matroska mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mng motif mozcalendar mozsvg mp3 mpeg musepack nas nautilus ncurses netboot network nfs nls nntp no-seamonkey nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia odbc offensive ogg opengl pam pcre perl plotutils png portaudio postgres pppd pwdb python quicktime quotas readline real reflection rtc ruby samba sdl session skey smp sndfile speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs t1lib tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora threads tiff toolbar truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vcd video_cards_nv video_cards_v4l vidix vorbis win32codecs wmf xanim xml xml2 xorg xprint xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Not a bug, it's the first locale in your LINGUAS that is supported, so it will get used. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144360 ***
