377235 - reply_header_locale "en-US" not working at 2.0 RC1

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Masaki Katakai]

I started using Thunderbird 2 RC 1 for Windows. I downloaded Japanese version.

The behavior has been changed around mailnews.reply_header_locale and
mailnews.reply_header_type.

user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_locale", "en-US");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 2);

I set the locale to "en-US", but the compose window inserts Japanese header,
it should be English.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Are you saying it worked before? If not -> bug 211004.

Comment 2

[Masaki Katakai]

I see, thank you for the info.

I mean actually the behavior has been changed from Beta2.

When I set these my prefs,

user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_locale", "en-US");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 2);

It returns,

Beta2:
   On ..., ... wrote:

RC1:
  (...), ... <japanese>

in Japanese locale.

When I checked the properties files of Japanese, these strings
have been localized at RC1. Is this correct? 

These keys are now localized at RC1.

locale/ja/messenger/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote = 
mailnews.reply_header_ondate =

Should I need to change bug category to localization?

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think the mailnews.reply_header_locale is only supposed to affect the time/date format.

With beta2, was is possible to get anything other than the en-US values? Like what happened if you set it to ja-JP or an empty string.

Comment 4

[Masaki Katakai]

I see, Thank you very much, Magnus.

OK, I should have filed this to localization category and the synopsis
should be "header description has been changed from beta2".

I'll change this to other category.

Comment 5

[Masaki Katakai]

I filed a new bug in localization category bug 377690 and
will close this as INVALID.

Thank you very much for help.