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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249989
Title:
$LC_*, $LANG and $LANGUAGE env vars misinterpreted
Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
Invalid
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in firefox-3.0 package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox
Firefox doesn't interpret locale related environment variables ($LANG and
$LANGUAGE) as it should.
I feeded an existing upstream bug report with the following information. You
can find it at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419176
1) Ubuntu release:
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron x86_64
2) Package version:
3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
But this had affected all versions of firefox I've ever used
3) What is expected:
Firefox should honour the locale hierarchy set in $LANGUAGE, so when the
first locale isn't available, the second should be tried, and so on. Extensions
should do the same, independently of the choice made by the core application
(or not, but personally I'd prefer that way :-).
4) What happens instead:
Firefox reads $LANG instead of $LANGUAGE to determine the user interface
language, among other things. When there isn't a translation/localization for
the system's default locale, it defaults to English, no matter what locales are
listed in $LANGUAGE.
Steps to reproduce the bug:
1) Run this bash command:
LANG="gl_ES.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="gl_ES:gl_GL:gl:es_ES:es:en_US:en" firefox
Result: Firefox UI is in English. It should be in Galician, but as no
localization exist in that language, it should be in Spanish.
2) Run this bash command:
LANG="es_ES.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="whoCares" firefox
(you could run "firefox -UILocale es-ES" as well)
Result: Firefox UI is in Spanish, as long as every extension.
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