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  1. Bug #550222
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Comment 0 for bug 550222

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Jeroen Hoek (mail-jeroenhoek) wrote :

Binary package hint: firefox

Firefox appears to misinterpret the locale environment variables set by the Language Support tool. It uses LANG instead of LANGUAGE.

Use case:
I am a software engineer, so I prefer to have my user interface language set to English ("en_GB" if possible, fall back to "en"). I'm Dutch and live in the Netherlands, so all measurements, paper sizes, and currency localization are set to "nl_NL". This works for all GTK+ applications as expected. Firefox however sets its interface language to Dutch instead of English.

As far as I can tell, the Language Support tool in Lucid Lynx sets LANGUAGE and LANG:

LANG=nl_NL.utf8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en

This seems to be a bug in Firefox.

Possibly related bugs:
#539761 (LC_MESSAGES misinterpreted)