thunderbird, lightning localization

[Jan Beich]

Corpo <acupuncture at cgocable.ca> writes:

> The problem lies with these 2 files:
>
> < ... >/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/chrome.jar
>
> < ... >/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/chrome.manifest
>
> as they are meant to be used for en-US only!

Lightning on addons.mozilla.org contains all locales but FreeBSD cannot
use that version due to missing binary components. Not sure how hard
would it be to extract locales and use them during port build.

> Sadly, nobody seems to be paying attention to the bugs report. But a
> quick google search shows that this is an often mentioned problem with
> lightning.

I neither use Thunderbird nor familar with its codebase. So, bugs
without patches that are not regressions maybe overlooked. gecko@ is
also understaffed.