Hello,
When you run the Icedove profile manager with 'icedove -P', all the
stuff related to it are not displayed in your current locale, while once
a profile is running, thunderbird/icedove is correctly localized.
If you check the sources and unzip all the mozilla stuff, we can see that
the strings are translated in :
icedove-locales-1.5.0.7/chrome/locale/fr/mozapps/profile
I tried to use a 1.5.0.8 fr.jar from mozilla.org, it remains the same.
By the way, updating icedove-locales to 1.5.0.8 before Etch could be
fine :)
Regards,