Why LANG variable doesn't change the language?

[Boris Samorodov]

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:42:13 -0800 Yuri wrote:
> daniele wrote:

> > I think that firefox needs its language pack to be installed the
> > usual way:
> > THis is the __language pack package description__ for firefox3

> Language pack (firefox3-i18n-3.0.15) for firefox didn't translate
> menus at all. Tools item got "Quick Locale Switcher" menu which lets
> you to change locale. But this locale doesn't change menus either.

Please show an output for:
% pkg_info -Ix firefox

> It's not clear why good old LANG variable doesn't work in FreeBSD any more.

It works at FreeBSD. It's a firefox question either use it or not.

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