I'd like to start Firefox in english in order to figure out a large amount translations of error messages without doing research. The usual suspects LANGUAGE=en, LANG=C, LC_ALL=C don't work.
I had trouble with this task for other programs, but the solutions don't apply here:
- How to start ubuntu-software in english on a german system without changing the langage settings?: The "solution" if you can call it that was to reconfigure the program with
dpkgwhich doesn't help in this case - How to invoke a KDE application with another language (equivalent of LANGUAGE=C)?: Firefox is not a KDE application
Afaik it'd be nice if LANGUAGE would work for Firefox since it's a comfortable reliable solution to overwrite the system-wide configuration for a single invokation of the program. I guess opinions on proposing its support as a feature doesn't go beyond the scope of this question.
I'd like to leave both the Ubuntu and Firefox settings untouched.
I'm using Ubuntu 19.04.
/usr/bin/firefoxis a shell "wrapper" script rather than a binary executable; you may need toexportthe language/locale variables in order for them to propagate to the underlying process – steeldriver May 05 '19 at 17:26export LC_ALL=C, thank you. I'd accept that as an answer. – Kalle Richter May 05 '19 at 17:38