Bug#907197: thunderbird 60 - although thunderbird-l10n-it is installed, the language is always English

[Tapio Lehtonen]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:05:39 +0200 Carsten Schoenert 
<c.schoen...@t-online.de> wrote:
Version: 1:60.0-2

Hello,
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 05:56:13PM +0200, luca wrote:
> despite thunderbird-l10n-it is installed, the language is always English.
> 
> system lang is italian.
> 
> workaround set intl.locale.requested = it in about:config

yes, and that's mentioned in the NEWS files with some explanation how to
handle this within README.Debian.

  /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/README.Debian.gz

Please try first always to have a look into the mentioned file before
raising a bug tracker issue. If you feel there is something information
lacking feel free to provide a merge request or a patch.

Regards
Carsten



The fix suggested in README does not work for Finnish. I do have the 
Finnish locale package installed:

$ LANG=C apt-cache policy thunderbird-l10n-fi
thunderbird-l10n-fi:
  Installed: 1:60.0-3~deb9u1
  Candidate: 1:60.0-3~deb9u1
  Version table:
 *** 1:60.0-3~deb9u1 500
        500 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:52.9.1-1~deb9u1 500
        500 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages
     1:52.8.0-1~deb9u1 500
        500 http://approx.toimisto.satatuuli.fi:9999/debian 
stretch/main amd64 Packages

I have edited the config entry:

intl.locale.requested;fi

Restarted Thunderbird, UI is still english.

By the way, my locale is Finnish, so if Thunderbird behaved nicely it 
would be in Finnish like before.

$ locale
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=



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Tapio Lehtonen
OSK Satatuuli
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