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The Chinese translation implicitly falls back to English on Linux #1859

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@toyboot4e

Describe the bug

As in the title, we cannot start plover with Chinese on Linux.

To Reproduce

In either way, plover launches with English:

$ LANGUAGE=zh_TW python setup.py launch
$ LANGUAGE=zh_tw python setup.py launch

Expected behavior

It launches in Chinese.

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  • OS: NixOS
  • Plover Version: HEAD

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  1. toyboot4e commented on Jul 26, 2026

    @toyboot4e
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    On macOS, it launched in Chinese with no problem:

    $ LANGUAGE=zh_TW plover
    
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