Re: [gentoo-user] how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

[Willie Wong]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:55:58PM +0800, Penguin Lover zhangweiwu@××××××.com squawked:
> zhangweiwu@esmeralda:~$ LANG=en_US abiword
>
> However this method doesn't work for firefox and thunderbird. Both
> always starts in German (note German is the last, a.k.a. least preferred
> language for me, in /etc/locale.gen)
>
> I checked that I do have thunderbird installed with linguas_en_US (see
> below emerge output). If it is installed with that language version, it
> should be able to run in that language version. How can I start
> thunderbird in en_US?
>
> zhangweiwu@esmeralda:~$ sudo emerge -pv mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.19  USE="crypt ipv6 ldap replytolist xinerama xprint -bindist -debug -gnome -mozdom -moznopango" LINGUAS="de en_US -af -be -bg -ca -cs -da -el -en -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -ga -ga_IE -he -hu -it -ja -ko -lt -mk -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ru -sk -sl -sv -sv_SE -tr -uk -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
>

For firefox:
 Open about:config
 find the variable "general.useragent.locale"
 set it to the one you want, but replace underscores by hyphens:
   write en-US for the value if you want US English.
   write zh-CN if you want simplified chinese. 

For thunderbird, presumeably something similar can be done; but I
don't use thunderbird so I cannot try it for you. 

For ease of use, there is also a firefox add-on called "locale switch"
that automates the process.

HTH, 

W
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