Ubuntu
thunderbird package

Setting reply_header_locale to en-US does not work

Bug #157638 reported by Masaki on 2007-10-27

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	thunderbird (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

I'm seeing this issue only on Ubuntu, it does not happen on Fedora 6, 7 so I filed this against Ubuntu not Mozilla site.

1. Using Japanese desktop environment.
2. Start Thunderbird and set up the user account
3. Change the preference to

user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 2);

the default is 1.

4. Try to reply to someone
The reply header is correct, no garbled characters. The date format is Japanese and contains Japanese characters.

"On 2007年10月26日 18:49, xxxxxxx wrote:"

5. But it's not good when I send email to English folks, so I want to change the date format to English. So set the following,

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

6. Try to reply. Unfortunately the date format can not be changed, it's still including Japanese characters. Bad thing is that these characters are garbled, like

On 2007å¹´10æœˆ26æ—¥ 18:49, xxxxxx wrote:

This problem does not happen on Fedora.

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Masaki (masaki-katakai) wrote on 2007-10-27:

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Masaki (masaki-katakai) wrote on 2007-10-27:

Workaround is, to start thunderbird with LC_TIME=C.

% env LC_TIME=C /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote on 2008-05-13:

I can confirm that the reply_header_locale preference setting seems ignored on our Thunderbird. I use a French (fr-FR) locale and tried setting it to en-US, en, en-GB... without any effect. Changing other reply_header prefs is working.

Changed in mozilla-thunderbird:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote on 2008-10-30:

I can reproduce it on Intrepid.

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Rex Tsai (chihchun) wrote on 2009-08-03:

After a quick test, I found this configuration only works if you have the right locale data in the system.

For example, if you like to have en-US as reply_header_locale. You will need en_US in your system, you can check with this command in a terminal

$ locale -a|grep en_US
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8

The system only recognize en_US, not en_US.utf8. So, you can added the missed locale via this command

# dpkg-reconfigure locales

or using LC_TIME trick instead.

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dost vahap (dostvahap) wrote on 2011-05-16:

It dosen't show any bugs numbres but I am sending invitation to speeck with webcam thay don't reciev my invitation.
That's why I can't connect it.
dost vahap

Mathew Hodson (mhodson) on 2018-08-14

affects:	icedove (Debian) → debian
affects:	debian → ubuntu
no longer affects:	ubuntu
affects:	mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu) → thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low