376539 - Label texts depend on windows language and not on build language

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Rhotull]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

I did install french localization rc1 (with the installer thunderbird-2.0.0.0.fr.win32.installer.exe)
1- on a PC with windows XP with 'English' locale
2- on a PC with windows XP with 'French' locale

The text of the labels is (for example) on the  English-XP PC 'To Do', 'Later' (english). On the french locale PC, labels are in French ('A traiter', 'Peut attendre').

1- Labels should always be in french as this is a french localization build.
2- It creates at least one problem moving mail folders between those 2 PCs : search folders based on a label whose text is different lose their 'search folder' functionnality (they become normal (and empty) folders)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install french localization rc1 build on English locale windows
2. Install french localization rc1 build on French locale windows
3. Compare label texts
Actual Results:  
Label texts are different (English/French)

Moving mail folders between those 2 PC results in search folders based on some labels to lose their 'search folder' functionnality (they become normal (empty) folders)

Expected Results:  
All label texts should be in French

no extensions, no theme : 'out of the box' builds

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away, back Aug 4)]

Were those clean installs? (Had no existing profile? <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder> )

Comment 2

[Rhotull]

Well, I can't say I am 100% sure of that actually...

There was an old version of thunderbird (2.0 beta 2 (that means with english locale)) on my system before, but I did an uninstall before running the new installer. 
There was nothing thunderbird-related left under "program files", but I don't remember checking "applications data" directory. 
I guess it depends on the uninstall process leaving old profile or not...

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away, back Aug 4)]

Yep, the uninstaller leaves your profile intact. 

->INVALID, feel free to reopen if you can reproduce after blowing away your profile folder before installing.