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Use your language in Mozilla Thunderbird

If your language is not available as a RPM… You may do the following.

• Mozilla Thunderbird in your language. Download your language pack
• There, try to find if there is a .xpi language file for the version you use.
• You got it ? Now, next step.
• launch Mozilla-thunderbird as root

[fafane@MDK fafane?]# /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird

• select the extension with tools>Extensions
• Then close the client
• As a normal user, launch Mozilla Thunderbird with your country extension

For instance, -contentLocale FR -UILocale fr-FR with the french xpi.

[fafane@MDK fafane?]$ /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird -contentLocale FR -UILocale fr-FR

• You have both languages now and it's mixed ?

Solution. Go in your thunderbird profile [fafane@MDK fafane?]$ cd ~/.thunderbird/YourProfile) and, delete the XUL.mfasl file. and the Chrome directory.

[fafane@MDK fafanemailprofile?]$ rm -f XUL.mfasl [fafane@MDK fafanemailprofile?]$ rm -rf chrome

• Re-start Mozilla-Thunderbird.

[fafane@MDK fafane?]$ /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird -contentLocale FR -UILocale fr-FR It should be ok then.

But if you always want the new language on startup. You must update your shortcut :

• add '-contentLocale FR -UILocale fr-FR' (or whatever is your language) as seen above, or
• update the Mandrakelinux menu with Menudrake 1.1

Source : FrenchMozilla (in french)