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[Jo-hermans <550222@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Changing title, since it also affects other applications like
Thunderbird.

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Title:
  Firefox interface language set to LANG, ignores LANGUAGE

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  Triaged
Status in “amule” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  Firefox appears to misinterpret the locale environment variables set
  by the Language Support tool. It uses LANG instead of LANGUAGE.

  Use case:
  I am a software engineer, so I prefer to have my user interface language set to English ("en_GB" if possible, fall back to "en"). I'm Dutch and live in the Netherlands, so all measurements, paper sizes, and currency localization are set to "nl_NL". This works for all GTK+ applications as expected. Firefox however sets its interface language to Dutch instead of English.

  As far as I can tell, the Language Support tool in Lucid Lynx sets
  LANGUAGE and LANG:

  LANG=nl_NL.utf8
  LANGUAGE=en_GB:en

  This seems to be a bug in Firefox.

  Possibly related bugs:
  bug 539761 (LC_MESSAGES misinterpreted)

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