166685 - Unicode text doesn't follow up the OS locale language (some strings not localized)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Yuying Long]

Build: 09-04-05 Chimera build on both Mac 10.2 and 10.1.5

There are places that you can see the unicode text doesn't follow up the locale
language.

E.g. if I set OS locale to Japanese or Chinese and launch Chimera, those unicode
text places doesn't change to Japanese or Chinese:
Navigator | Preferences, Hide Navigator, Quit Navigator...etc.
Text strings in labels and buttons in Open File, Sava As, Print... dialogs.

Note: those strings in Netscape 7.0 is followed the locale language setting.

Comment 1

[Yuying Long]

Attachment: screen shot for an example

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

What we need to fix this is to have a (maybe empty) Japanese.lproj folder in the
package.

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

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Comment 4

[HARUNAGA Hirotoshi]

Problems on Mozilla are Bug 172444 and Bug 151239.

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Is this still an issue with the Camino Multilang builds or only with
English-only builds?

The related Mozilla bug 172444 in comment 4 was WONTFIXed, but from the comments
in that bug, Simon's suggestion in comment 2 here seems to be the "needed" fix.

CCing Ludovic....

Comment 6

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Can we get an update on this?  If it's *not* an issue with Camino MultiLang
builds, I'm tempted to say WONTFIX; i.e, if you run an English Camino in a
Japanese locale, all of the dialogues, menus, etc., within Camino *should* be in
English.

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I agree with Smokey, this should be WONTFIXed.

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I tested this with Simplified Chinese, since that's included in the MultiLang
build.  This bug only occurs in the *English-only* builds, not in the MultiLang
build when it includes a language to match your default system language, and
occurs only for Asian languages, apparently (setting my system language to
French and running an English-only Camino showed me only English items in my
open/save dialogues).

It's certainly odd having a couple of items localized ("Desktop", "Documents",
"Applications" in the open/save dialogues) in an English application, but no
odder, it seems to me, than running an English application under a Mac OS X with
a system language set to Japanese or Chinese.

I can also confirm that Simon's solution (comment 2) of an empty langcode.lproj
(zh_CN.lproj) folder fixes this, should we desire to do so.

Mike, Simon, Ludovic, can we get a ruling on this?  FWIW, the Core companion was
WONTFIXed.

Comment 9

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

English build being in english is not a bug for me. If the japanese version has
the problem then it's a bug.
This is Rather INVALID than wontfix. we won't fix it because it's invalid.