810696 - [i18n] Month names/dates in download manager in English (en-US) despite OS and browser being in a different language

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 755224

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Download Manager, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Firefox for Android nightly 20121111, Android 4.1.2 (stock), Google Nexus S

The downloads manager (about:downloads or menu Tools > Downloads) uses the English names for the months at which the download was done.

Android is set to German ("Deutsch", language code "de") and Fennec is multilocale build.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

This is no bug by the localizer (that's me) because the strings for month localizations are in http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/locales/en-US/chrome/global/dateFormat.properties which is localized: http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-central/source/de/toolkit/chrome/global/dateFormat.properties

aboutDownloads.js calls DownloadUtils.getReadableDates at http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/chrome/content/aboutDownloads.js#323

DownloadUtils calls aDate.toLocaleFormat("%A") which shows the English weekday name: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/mozapps/downloads/DownloadUtils.jsm#346
For downloads older than a week, it shows the English month name using aDate.toLocaleFormat("%A"): http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/mozapps/downloads/DownloadUtils.jsm#349

In jsdate.cpp, ToLocaleHelper gets called: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jsdate.cpp#2916

And there PRMJ_FormatTime doesn't seem to return the expected result.

And yes, general.useragent.locale is set (by default) to |de|.

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

This is basically a dup of bug 755224, but its in a different component. Localizing dates ends up calling strftime. I wonder if Android isn't setting the system locale, but using some custom abstraction.

I think we'll have to JNI this call to use something in Android instead.

Comment 3

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Thanks. That's the reason why I didn't find it. It's always fun to dupe against oneself.