162112 - selecting Japanese language pack doesn't work for all users

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Internationalization: Localization, defect)

Description

[Andreas Roland]

Yesterday I've installed English Mozilla (Build ID: 2002053012) on my Windows 98
System under my account.
Today I've set up the Preferences for my wife's account and she would like to
use Japanese as selected language pack. After restarting Mozilla and even after
reboot the menues still were in English, so I logged in under my account and
selected the Japanese language pack. After restarting Mozilla, it appeared in
Japanese as expected.
Then I compared the profiles for differences and found that the chrome directory
in my wife's profile was much smaller than my chrome directory. After moving the
original chrome directory and replacing it with a copy of my chrome folder,
Japanese was also working in my wife's account.

If you need the bad chrome folder for analysis, feel free to contact me. I will
keep that folder for a while.

Thanks a lot for this localisation. Kayoko (my wife) gave me a big kiss for this ...

Regards,
Andreas.

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

--> Browser/Localization

Comment 2

[Kasumi]

Andreas:
Could you please create a new profile following this.
1. Launch Profilemanager
2. Click Create Profile button
3. Click Next button
4. Type profile name whatever you want
5. Cliock Region Selection button
6. You will have Japanese(Japan) in Preferred Language list box, select it
7. You will have Japan Region in Preferred Content list box, select it then 
   Finish button
8. Launch Navigator using this profile, you might be okay
9. You may need your account back to English Language+Region pack using 
   Preferences/Appearacce/Language/Content
 
 

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Reporter: Is this still a problem with a current Mozilla build and a current
language pack?

Comment 4

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

this is still a problem.
I can confirm this using the da-dk language pack on SuSE linux 9.0 with Mozilla
1.6 final

It doesn't seem to be a problem under Mac OS X

when installing a language pack, only the root account gets to see the
localisation strings even though the language pack has been activated and is the
active one on normal user accounts

steps to reproduce:
1) install a language pack as root
2) activate and test it for a root account Mozilla profile
3) activate and test it for a user account Mozilla profile

Expected results:
both the root profile and the user profile should see the localised strings

Actual results:
only the root account can see the localised strings
the user account profile still gets the english strings

Further information:
I've tried - without success - to delete the XUL.mfasl file

Workaround:
copy the chrome.rdf from the root profile to the user profile

Comment 5

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

further testing & experimenting shows that the language pack will show up in
Mozilla profiles for users other than root that are created *after* installing
the language pack. In already excisting profiles the language pack will
- be registered as the active one
- chrome.rdf will not reflect this

Strangely, this is only an issue for me under SuSE Linux 9.0

Under Mac OS X I've been unable to reproduce the problem

Under Yellow Dog Linux 3.1 PPC installing the language pack activates it as the
default language pack systemwide also for existing profiles

In all cases, I've used Mozilla 1.6final

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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