303446 - commandline parameters for XULRunner localization story

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, enhancement)

Description

[Andreas Otte]

For running XULRunner applications with different locales as a minimum something
like the commandline parameters for this purpose used in firefox are needed: 

-UILocale <locale> 
(Start with <locale> resources as UI Locale)
-contentLocale <locale> 
(Start with <locale> resources as content)

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

The -UILocale flag should work already, and there is no such thing as a "content
locale" in toolkit apps (the language pack and the region pack are one and the
same).

Comment 2

[Andreas Otte]

Okay, figured it out now. -UILocale <locale> is considered an application
parameter, not a XULRunner parameter, it has to come after the application
ini-file to work. I tried it before the ini-file and XULRunner just returned to
the prompt without doing anything.

-contentLocale <locale>  strangely is a parameter for toolkit applications. Take
a look at mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp.

Thanks

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

No it's not ;-)

That's old documentation taken from the suite version of nsAppRunner.cpp, and
never cleaned up.