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Message #00576
[Bug 550222]
*** Bug 595299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550222
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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