FS#4647 - Thunderbird needs to be patched to support language-packs

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 09:16 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Firefox has a patch included which makes it possible to add language-packs. It would be nice if Thunderbird will have this functionality, too.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 21:27 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 09:27 GMT
This patch doesn't do anything with language packs, it just sets the browser locale to something it fetches from the LANG environment variable. Language packs should work, independant from the patch.
Comment by Claudio Riva (Firetux) - Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 09:32 GMT
I confirm what Jan de Groot said. Italian .xpi works well for me.

1) install translation with "extensions" tool.
2) change value of "general.userangent.locale" key according to your language (for example "it-IT")
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 09:32 GMT
Yes, that`s what I wanted to say. But this patch makes it easy to setup a multilingual installation and to create PKGBUILDs for the different languages.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 23:19 GMT
I agree. It's a simple matter of including the line

pref("intl.locale.matchOS", true);

into /opt/mozilla/lib/thunderbird/defaults/pref/all-thunderbird.js and thunderbird will automatically set its locale according to the system's locale setting if the language pack is available (just tested it, works great). Without this setting, setting the thunderbird language will be rather complicated (as you have to edit some setting in firefox that is more or less hidden).

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