1535121 - Unrecognized command line flag --UILocale

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[mbndr]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

System: Archlinux 64bit, Thunderbird: 60.5.3
A German Language Pack is installed

I wanted to start Thunderbird with the German (de) locale setting:
thunderbird --UILocale de

Actual results:

Following warning was shown:
Warning: unrecognized command line flag -UILocale
The program started in English.

Expected results:

The German language should've been used.

This line is displayed in the help text (thunderbird --help):
--UILocale <locale> Start with <locale> resources as UI Locale.

If it's my fault and I misunderstood the usage of the flag UILocale there should be another warning because the help text says this flag exists.

Comment 1

[Christian Riechers]

TB68.0a1 (2019-04-13) (64-bit), OpenSUSE 15.0
Starting Thunderbird from a shell with the --UIlocale de command line option doesn't produce an error message here.
/opt/thunderbird_daily/thunderbird -P daily --UIlocale de

I'm not exactly sure though what that is supposed to do with an en-us version of Thunderbird.
Can you try with the daily version?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

mbndr?

Comment 3

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard

Comment 4

[Jonathan Kamens]

I am able to reproduce this issue with Thunderbird daily:

$ thunderbird --UILocale hu
Warning: unrecognized command line flag -UILocale

I am using up-to-date daily build on 64-bit Ubuntu Linux.

I am also able to reproduce this problem with the Thunderbird 60.7 shipped with Ubuntu.

I have tried all permutations I could think of for the command line option -- one hyphen or two, "UILocale" vs "uilocale", and none of them work.

Comment 5

[Nuno Silva [:njsg]]

It seems that this option was removed in bug 1347306.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

OP's problem and bug 1658191 are gone in my testing of 85 beta