Hi,

I tried to change the system language to french. This does not work:

according to strace, dolphin looks for translations in
[pid 299342] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/games/dolphin-emu//../locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/dolphin-emu.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom)
while it is installed in /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/dolphin-emu.mo

the relevant code is:
static bool TryInstallTranslator(const QString& exact_language_code)
{
  for (const auto& qlang : FindPossibleLanguageCodes(exact_language_code))
  {
    std::string lang = qlang.toStdString();
    auto filename =
#if defined _WIN32
        fmt::format("{}/Languages/{}.mo", File::GetExeDirectory(), lang)
#elif defined __APPLE__
        fmt::format("{}/Contents/Resources/{}.lproj/dolphin-emu.mo", File::GetBundleDirectory(),
                    lang)
#elif defined LINUX_LOCAL_DEV
        fmt::format("{}/../Source/Core/DolphinQt/{}/dolphin-emu.mo", File::GetExeDirectory(), lang)
#else
        fmt::format("{}/../locale/{}/LC_MESSAGES/dolphin-emu.mo", DATA_DIR, lang)
#endif

a workaround is:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/locale /usr/share/games/locale

but it's probably a matter of either installing the files in the correct
path, or patching dolphin so that it searches for translation in the
correct path.

Best,

Lucas

Hello,

Bug #1108687 in dolphin-emu reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/dolphin-emu/-/commit/9e14e17a35b4a79ce1d53833dc31ecc6466079bb
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Look for locale files in the correct directory.

Closes: #1108687
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Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1108687

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dolphin-emu, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1108687@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> (supplier of updated dolphin-emu package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:00:09 +0200
Source: dolphin-emu
Architecture: source
Version: 2506+dfsg-2
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>
Closes: 1094989 1108687
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