Localization fails

[gerryfrancis]

• Operating System (Linux/Mac/Windows/iOS/Android):
  Windows 8.1 Pro.

• Delta Chat Version:
  1.4.2 & 1.4.3.

• Expected behavior:
  Delta Chat starts with the standard language of the operating system. (My system has German installed as standard.)

• Actual behavior:
  Delta Chat starts with two different languages, German for the mehu bar, and English for the rest.

• Steps to reproduce the problem:
  -- Set another language (e.g. German) as standard in your operating system.
  -- Install Delta Chat.

• Screenshots:
  

• Logs:

2020-06-27T13:28:23.786Z	main/index            	INFO		"cwd C:\\Users\\PC_USER\\AppData\\Local\\DeltaChat"
2020-06-27T13:28:23.886Z	main/menu             	INFO		"rebuilding menu with locale de"
2020-06-27T13:28:29.181Z	main/state            	INFO		"Saving state to C:\\Users\\PC_USER\\AppData\\Local\\DeltaChat\\config.json"

[Simon-Laux]

I can reproduce it on linux as well: select a language other than english, restart deltachat and now the menu is in the choosen language, but the interface is english again

[gerryfrancis]

@Simon-Laux Maybe related to #1637 ?

[gerryfrancis]

Thanks, I will test the fix in the upcoming release! 👍

[gerryfrancis]

Unfortunately it is still an issue in version 1.4.3 (German menu bar and English window content like shown in the screenshot above).

[Simon-Laux]

looks like it appeared again when restarting

[gerryfrancis]

looks like it appeared again when restarting

@Simon-Laux It seems that it appears from the very beginning where no language has been set, yet. (BTW, thanks for reopening!)

[Simon-Laux]

1.4.2 has that bug, 1.4.3 doesn't have it for me. I can not test the beginning stuff right now because my OS language is en

[gerryfrancis]

@Simon-Laux AFAIK, a one-for-all default system language in Windows does not exist anymore, except for the installation process. Actually it is all about the display language that a user prefers. If there are different language packs installed, a user can choose the appropriate language to be a display language. This can be changed quite easily, so there is no need to install another Windows OS in a different language.

[Simon-Laux]

I'm on linux...
On windows it doesn't pick up the system language on first start you say? that would then reopen #1751
But I reopened this mainly because @Jikstra had the bug where the app is only partially translated on start, but when changing the lang everything worked as expected until the app was restarted.

[gerryfrancis]

the app is only partially translated on start,

@Simon-Laux Correct, just as I described. (See above.)

but when changing the lang everything worked as expected until the app was restarted.

@Simon-Laux On my machine (Windows 8.1 Pro), when changing the language (first to English because of the menu bar, and then to German), then quitting, and running Delta Chat again, this works. So, this bug is true just for the very beginning where Delta Chat has been installed from scratch.

[gerryfrancis]

On windows it doesn't pick up the system language on first start you say? that would then reopen #1751

@Simon-Laux That has been a fix for #1712 , which, obviously, is right, because the correct language is used for the menu bar. (See screenshot above.) So, I would not reopen #1751 .

[gerryfrancis]

@Simon-Laux I have tested in version 1.10.0 and now it works, great! Thanks a lot! 👍