Wrong Language in Thunderbird UI
Although the spell-checker dictionary is correct, apparently my Thunderbird UI itself is set to UK English while I am in the US so some spellings are wrong. For example, when centering text or images, I must select Centre rather than Center. How can this be corrected without a complete uninstall and reinstall? In fact, this system was freshly configured so is perhaps the wrong language is a bug?
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I'm running TB 60.7.0 en-US on Linux here too, and for me it shows 'Center'.
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Download and install the version for your desired language. https://www.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/all/
There is no need to uninstall, just run the downloaded installer.
Modified by christ1
Apparently it is a bug as all four of my Linux PCs have British spellings in the Thunderbird UI when US English was selected at install. Clearly some spelling differences were missed. When I posted I thought it was an anomaly of that one PC but it isn't.
You can follow the suggestion or not. Up to you.
The point is that I did that, yet Centre remains.
Please post a screenshot illustrating the problem. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-do-i-create-screenshot-my-problem
Couldn't do a screenshot as the selector disappears from it so I had to take a photo of the screen instead.
The fact is, the language of the interface, menus etc. is separate from the language of the spellcheck dictionaries. You can have the EN-US spellcheck in the EN-UK version of TB, or the EN-UK spellcheck in the EN-US version - or have both dictionaries in either version.
For TB 60.7, the correct webExt dictionaries are:
UK English See instructions on this page for installing dictionaries.
Yes, I know that and installed with US English as the UI choice, and hence the question. All four of my Linux systems were set up and configured with Thunderbird's US English yet all have Centre rather than Center and maybe a few others.
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I'm running TB 60.7.0 en-US on Linux here too, and for me it shows 'Center'.
What finally did the trick was to decompress the downloaded .tar.bz2 and forceably copy the contents over the current install. Once that was done, it now shows Center for me too. Not sure why four out of four PCs had Centre and remained that way through all updates but now at least there is a fix even if not too elegant.
Modified by PCHomepage