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Date:      Fri, 02 Aug 2019 22:20:40 +0200
From:      hw <hw@adminart.net>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: thunderbird in German?
Message-ID:  <87tvaz8gkn.fsf@toy.adminart.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190802060356.eebda021.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Fri, 2 Aug 2019 06:03:56 %2B0200")
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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes:

> Praise me! Praise me! :-)

praises you ...

> With some more search engineering I found a way that works.
>
> It works _at the moment_.
>
> It's so stupid that by using your brain in a normal manner
> you never would have come up with such a stupid idea...
>
> Go to the "hamburger menu" -> Preferences -> Preferences ->
> Advanced -> Config Editor and accept the risk. Now add a
> new entry of type "string". The entry's name shall be:
>
> 	intl.locale.requested
>
> It's value shall be empty. Yes, you need to add a setting
> that has no actual value (except you consider empty string
> a value, which is acceptable).
>
> Restart Thunderbird.
>
> And now in German, please. :-)

Thank you very much, this actually works! :)

You have to have the language pack installed for this to work, though.

> PS. Let's see how long this hack works. Probably when the
> next Thunderbird version will be released, the trouble with
> the interface language start again...

I'll still try Sylpheed ...  It's been around for a while now, and I'm
curious.



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