[Bug 550222] Re: Firefox interface language set to LANG, ignores LANGUAGE

David Planella david.planella at ubuntu.com
Sun Oct 17 09:16:53 UTC 2010


El ds 16 de 10 de 2010 a les 22:53 +0000, en/na Gunnar Hjalmarsson va
escriure:
> @ Micah Gersten, David Planella
> I marked this bug, and with that its duplicates, as a duplicate of bug 553162, since the issue reported here will be solved by the solution being discussed at bug 553162. Please feel free to test the patches for yourself:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/locale-test
> 

Hi Gunnar,

Both Micah and I gave clear information on why we undid the duplication.
they are two different bugs:

* One affecting the interaction between gdm and language-selector in
setting LANG and LANGUAGE (and somewhere along the way it seems
language-selector seems to fail setting LC_* as well?).

* One affecting Firefox (and also other apps such as OpenOffice.org, for
which there is a task in one of the duplicates), where it does not
support the $LANGUAGE variable.

It does not matter if fixing gdm/language-selector will hide the second
bug: Firefox and other apps will still not support $LANGUAGE. If they
are used in environments where the vast majority of applications support
gettext, I think it's a valid request to expect them to implement the
gettext variables, so they do not have to be special-cased.

> I have noticed that you reverted my action, so I now understand that
> you, unlike me, prefer to consider inability to recognize LANGUAGE to be
> a bug per se.

Yes, as explained in the Firefox bug, both upstream and downstream.

>  But isn't that disputable as regards non-GNU apps? Anyway,
> it's of course good if as many apps as possible recognize LANGUAGE and
> its priority list feature. My apologies if you concluded from my action
> that I'm of another opinion.
> 

No need to apologize. It's completely fine to disagree!

Thanks for your work on this so far.

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Firefox interface language set to LANG, ignores LANGUAGE
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