226827 - registered locale not used (browser = en-US, extension=da-DK)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization: Localization, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

I'm not 100% sure this is a bug or not but I have the following scenario:

- browser running en-US locale
- extension which only provide da-DK locale

I use a clean install and a clean profile so I dont have any old locale entries
etc around.

my XPI install.js script registers the da-DK locale but when I start the browser
I'm getting an XML XUL error which complains about not being able to load stuff
from the locale.
if I type the chrome URL to the DTD file I'm getting a not found error.

What should happen if a extension only provide and register da-DK locale while
the browser runs in en-US locale?

tried both mozilla latest nighly and firebird latest nightly

Comment 1

[Michael Wolf]

I think the best solution is to install the Danish locale for Mozilla resp.
Firebird and switch language by
Edit-->Preferences-->Appearance-->Languages/Content or create a new profile for
Danish. But I think it would suffice to delete the chrome.rdf and xul.mfl
(Linux: xul.mfasl), both in the profile folder, and restart Mozilla resp. Firebird.
BTW, what extension is the question? Could you make the extension available?

Comment 2

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

Multi-lingual extensions have another problem:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258725

Multi-lingual Firefox / Thunderbird habe this problem:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259750

Comment 3

[Xavier Robin]

Bug 258725 and bug 259750 have been fixed now. Does this bug still appear ?

Comment 4

[hansen]

Not sure if this is fixed, but the Danish locale is "da" and not "da-DK" anymore.