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luxuslurch 09-26-2012 04:02 AM

Firefox in german language
 
Hello,

after I installed the system (Slackware 14RC5 with KDE on x86) I tried to switch to german language. I modified /etc/profile.d/lang.sh to look like this:

Code:

export lang=de_DE.UTF-8
This did the job pretty well. Afterwards, I installed the german.xpi in Firefox and rebooted. But to no avail: everything is in german besides Firefox. What else could I be doing?

adriv 09-26-2012 04:19 AM

Open about:config in Firefox en set general.useragent.locale to de-DE. That should do the trick.

fgcl2k 09-26-2012 04:19 AM

Try uppercase:
Code:

export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
Reboot afterwards.

willysr 09-26-2012 04:20 AM

Please visit this URL to grab the Mozilla l10n packages, including for German language

luxuslurch 09-26-2012 04:43 AM

Thank you very much for all your answers!

I tried the first one (changing the useragent to de-DE) - et voilą! Shouldn't the xpi be doing that by purpose?

Anyway, I will check out the other solutions, too, just for interest.

Bye!

adriv 09-26-2012 05:25 AM

The xpi is just the languagepack. You also have to set the locale in Firefox.
If you use Thunderbird (and want it in German), it's the same procedure.

kikinovak 09-26-2012 06:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luxuslurch (Post 4789556)
Hello,

after I installed the system (Slackware 14RC5 with KDE on x86) I tried to switch to german language. I modified /etc/profile.d/lang.sh to look like this:

Code:

export lang=de_DE.UTF-8
This did the job pretty well. Afterwards, I installed the german.xpi in Firefox and rebooted. But to no avail: everything is in german besides Firefox. What else could I be doing?

Watch out for uppercase and lowercase. LANG and lang are not the same variable.

Code:

[kikinovak@alphamule:~] $ echo "LANG = $LANG ; lang = $lang"
LANG = fr_FR.utf8 ; lang =


markush 09-26-2012 06:42 AM

The official xpi-files are here: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/re...ux-x86_64/xpi/

Markus


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