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thibdb13

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From: Mechelen - Belgium

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 114

[Solved] Locales: post installation problem

Hello,

After trying Fedora 16 for some days (with which I was quite happy), I came back to Archlinux and made a fresh install. Everything seemed to go as ever: rapidly and without problem but when I started Firefox, it was not working with my locales (one user has nl_BE.UTF-8 and another one cs_CZ.UTF-8): it keeps working in english. This is quite strange since Gnome is well working with the "right" languages.
I made a try with other languages (Spanish, French, Breton) and it gave the same result: Firefox in english while, for example, epiphany has no problem working with user's language.
It became even more "interesting" when I started Googleearth: it was using a hindic alphabet!!

I have tried to correct this by adding a line in our .bashrc files (e.g. export LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8) but this did not help.

Anyone any idea?

Thanks

Last edited by thibdb13 (2011-11-16 19:05:43)

kazuldur

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Registered: 2011-05-28

Posts: 13

Re: [Solved] Locales: post installation problem

Have you installed firefox-i18n-* packages for these languages? (I think it's firefox-i18n-cs and firefox-i18n-nl, but I'm not sure)

thibdb13

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From: Mechelen - Belgium

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 114

Re: [Solved] Locales: post installation problem

Have you installed firefox-i18n-* packages for these languages? (I think it's firefox-i18n-cs and firefox-i18n-nl, but I'm not sure)

Yes, they are both installed.

thibdb13

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From: Mechelen - Belgium

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 114

Re: [Solved] Locales: post installation problem

I finally found the solution which is quite trivial. After a new installation, you have to go in Firefox 8 to Tools/Addons/Languages and activate the language of your choice. I suppose it chose English by default because I had more than 1 language pack in my addons' list.