Deep in the dungeons of Mount nsChromeRegistryChrome[0], lies an ancient line of code that in the Days Of Old allowed knowledgeable spellcasters to select the locale of the user interface straight from the command line - "uiLocale"[1].
Since then, many things have changed, and folks forgot about this ancient magic, while at the same time added more and more ways to get the UI locale that did not take this command line parameter into account. Today, we have 13+ consecutive, and slightly incompatible, ways of selecting the user requested locale[2]. 12 of them ignore uiLocale, which makes me believe that if someone would try to use it they'd end up with an unusable patchwork of locales. Yours truly intends to craft one method to rule them all and in the mozilla::intl::LocaleService bind them, but he'd also like to avoid migrating that ancient command line spell and let it sail to Valinor. Is there anyone still using it? Is there any reason to keep it? Thanks, zb. [0] http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/chrome/nsChromeRegistryChrome.cpp#42 [1] http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/chrome/nsChromeRegistryChrome.cpp#339 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344445#c4 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
