Installed a new Thunderbird along with language pack, but new language ain't there.
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I run Debian 9 (stable, aka Stretch). I decided to upgrade Thunderbird (to try and solve some other problem) from Sid's sources; so, I compiled the source from Sid for Stretch. It installed with no problem and works well. I also installed a language pack for British English (so that "color" will be "colour" --> the former spelling just looks too much like the word "colon" to me). However, Thunderbird still shows "color".
I installed thunderbird_52.2.1-4_amd64.deb along with thunderbird-l10n-en-gb_52.2.1-4_all.deb. Also, I have installed hunspell, and hunspell-en-ca and hunspell-en-gb, but this just gave me spell check dictionaries rather than correcting the spelling on the actual Thunderbird program. |
Might be .thunderbird/profile dependant?
Have you tried a clean, or new one? Just saying. |
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I notice that all the programs have en-us spellings in spite of Debian presumably obtaining the locale (Canada) in the initial set-up (the keyboard was set to en-us though, which is typically what's used). I recall some time ago that I did manage, when I was using Vector Linux, to have en-gb set up (I don't think en-ca was recognized by most programs). That may be a part of the problem, in that Canada is simply too small-fry to be acknowledged. Quote:
Still, I don't even think this should be an issue with Thunderbird. The language packs are there, yet I'm not sure how to get them working (they are supposedly enabled -- see attached photo). Well, it's almost nine in the morning. So, I'll look at this later, since it's time to crack open a brewski and watch the Beachcombers. |
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root@debian:/home/mark# export LANGUAGE=en_GB:en |
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I searched and found on another forum how I had successfully done this some years ago, and tried the same thing with this current version of Thunderbird that I have. I opened the config editor in Thunderbird (Preferences -> Advanced -> General), and searched for the entry "general.useragent.locale" and set its value to en-GB. This had worked in the past, but no luck this time. Not sure what to try.
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if [ backups = true ]] I use .org to signify original |
Thanks for the script. Rather than use it, I just dumped the .thunderbird file in the Trash bin, and then opened up Thunderbird. My email was gone and it asked me to set up my address again. I skipped that and checked to see if the language had changed (IE, if stuff like "color" was now spelled as "colour"), and it wasn't. It was still in en-US, in spite of the English (GB) language packs being present. So, I closed Thunderbird, got rid of the newly created .thunderbird file, and restored the old one (my email and stuff is now back as well).
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The language pack just refers to spelling and window labels. The actual web content remains unchanged.
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Perhaps the language pack refers only to spelling. See is you can spell colour, and whether it gets marked. In GB both color and colour are considered acceptable.
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The language pack is not meant as a spell-checker for email that I type. That was provided by the package hunspell-en-ca (the language pack was installed at the same time as Thunderbird, and hunspell was installed later. I did not have a spell-check until I installed hunspell). ETA: I also installed hunspell-en-gb, and when under Preferences --> Composition --> Language, I choose "English (United Kingdom)", it gives the same result as pictured.
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TBH Mark, I have overlooked this issue for years in Mozilla products, or never cared enough to figure out why all my American English words
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I think the only way is to install a fully localized version: if that's not an option in Ubuntu then there is Mozilla's direct link.
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This is something you'll just have to live with! Programmers will create versions for foreign languages, but not for varieties of the same language. In Open/LibreOffice, you can have British spellchecking, but the only English user interface is US.
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Historically they have created a language pack for en-gb, and are still doing so. That it's not working may be a bug. Here's the site of the software. https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Teams:en-GB
ETA: I did just now submit a bug report on the package thunderbird-l10n-en-gb using reportbug. |
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