Language used by Firefox's spellchecker does not default to language chosen in gnome-language-selector

[Brian Pitts]

Binary package hint: firefox

Installation was performed in oem mode from a 9.10 cd where the following packages were added to the squashfs and filesystem.manifest-desktop-

gimp-help-common openoffice.org-l10n-common language-support-es language-pack-es kde-l10n-es evolution-documentation-es gimp-help-es openoffice.org-help-es gnome-user-guide-es openoffice.org-l10n-es language-pack-kde-es openoffice.org2-thesaurus-es language-support-en language-pack-en kde-l10n-engb evolution-documentation-es gimp-help-en openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-help-en-us gnome-user-guide-en openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za language-pack-kde-en openoffice.org2-thesaurus-en-us openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us

Adding this set of packages to the cd allows a user to choose either English or Spanish and have full internationalization without needing an internet connection.

During installation, the locale chosen was en_US.UTF-8. During user setup via oem-config, English was chosen. After logging in to the newly-created user account and starting Firefox, the language it uses for spell checking is es-GT. English / United States is in Firefox's list of available languages but it is not chosen, despite gnome-language-selector reporting English and env reporting LANG=en_US.UTF-8.

Other applications like Gedit and OpenOffice.org properly spellcheck in English, so I think this problem is specific to Firefox.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Moving to Firefox 3.5 for Triage

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 424102, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.