[Bug 576162] Re: Firfox menu language selected by LOCALE and not be MENU-language

[David Planella]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 550222 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550222

Hi Martin,

El dj 06 de 05 de 2010 a les 09:16 +0000, en/na Martin Andersson va
escriure:
> Hi David
> 
> The language settings are two things.
> 
> One concerns with what kind of currency is being used, what kind of decimal
> point etectera. This is usually referred to as "locale". The locale should
> be used only for how to display things like year-date-format, thousand
> separator, and so on.
> 

I understand what the different locale settings are, I'm just trying to
determine how exactly you set them, so we can debug your problem.

So could you:

* Tell us how did you change them? With gnome-language-selector (i.e.
System > Administration > Language Support)?
* Give us the output of the 'locale' command on the terminal?

> The other thing is what language is used in menus, for example the Ubuntu
> desktop menus, but also the language used in applications like Open Office
> or Firefox.
> 

The language shown in menus should be the same used in the applications.
If it's not, this is probably a bug.

Recently gnome-language-selector gained the functionality to set a
locale for the language of the applications differently from other
regional settings (currency, date, etc.), and I'm just wondering if this
is related to that.

> The reason why there are two different settings is that someone using
> Russian menus may want to use an american locale if they are working a lot
> US units like inches and feet. It might even be that someone wants to
> customize the locale settings.
> 
> In my case, I prefer to English menus and Japanese locale to get currencies
> and separators right. But if I change the locale to be Japanese, also the
> menus of Firefox change to Japanese. It might be OK, but it is not a correct
> behavior. All the other menus in the desktop and so on remin in English.
> Only if changing to Japanese menus in the language settings, the menus
> should change.
> 
> (I have seen this problem for many applications also in Windows XP but
> recently most apps are behaving correctly and not deciding the menus from
> the locale).
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2010/5/6 David Planella <david.planella at ubuntu.com>
> 
> > Martin,
> >
> > Could you please explain us what do you mean with "English menus and a
> > Japanese locale"? How do you set the two different languages?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Note that this might be related to bug 553162, for which we've been
> > getting a lot of duplicates recently.
> >
> > ** Changed in: ubuntu-translations
> >       Status: New => Incomplete
> >
> > --
> > Firfox menu language selected by LOCALE and not be MENU-language
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576162
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
> 

Thanks!

-- 
David Planella
Ubuntu Translations Coordinator
david(dot)planella(at)ubuntu(dot)com
www.ubuntu.com

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