[17122] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape 4.61 vs. 4.x language problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Sep 1 11:28:40 1999
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:28:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Sara C Pickett <sarac@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
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Thanks! This is not a setting I'd ever fiddled with, so I hadn't noticed.
Parsing the line to remove the language names is probably beyond the scope
of netscape-fix, so I'll just set it to clear the old setting out.
-Todd Belton
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Sara C Pickett wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I hadn't been using Netscape much this summer, and so today
> was the first time that I ran Netscape Communicator 4.61. I
> ran netscape-fix to convert the preferences, and then changed
> some back by hand.
>
> The particular problem I was having was that if I opened the
> preferences and went to "Naviagtor -> Languages" netscape would
> always crash with a bus error.
>
> Both ~/.netscape/preferences.js and preferences.js.old contained
> the line:
> user_pref("intl.accept_languages", \
> "English/United States [en-US],English [en],Spanish [es]");
> I changed that line to:
> user_pref("intl.accept_languages", \
> "");
> I also made the same change to that line in ~/.netscape/liprefs.js
> (I don't know if that step was necessary or not.)
>
> After that, I was able to access that part of the preferences, and
> reenter my language preferences without Netscape crashing. After
> saving the preferences, the relevent line looked like:
> user_pref("intl.accept_languages", "en-US, en, es");
>
> So, it looks like Netscape changed from taking the format
> "<language name> [<language code>]" to just "<language
> code>", and that the old format causes bus errors (sigh).
> netscape-fix should probably be changed to convert that preference
> (or even just clear it out) to prevent problems.
