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I just added another user account to my 15.10 machine (Unity Desktop). My first account had an English locale set, which worked correctly everywhere:

$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

The new account should have a German locale instead and is configured like this:

$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

This works for all applications except Thunderbird. It still displays the entire GUI in English.

I have both thunderbird version 43 and the necessary locale package thunderbird-locale-de installed from ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-next.

$ apt-cache policy thunderbird thunderbird-locale-de
thunderbird:
  Installed: 1:43.0~b1+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
  Candidate: 1:43.0~b1+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:43.0~b1+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/thunderbird-next/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:38.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 0
        500 http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/ubuntu/ wily-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/ubuntu/ wily-security/main amd64 Packages
     1:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
thunderbird-locale-de:
  Installed: 1:43.0~b1+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
  Candidate: 1:43.0~b1+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:43.0~b1+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/thunderbird-next/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:38.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 0
        500 http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/ubuntu/ wily-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/ubuntu/ wily-security/main amd64 Packages
     1:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
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  • If you go under Addon>Languages in Thunderbird, do you have the German package? Under System Settings>Language Support, is German the first language?
    – dadexix86
    Jan 17, 2016 at 17:28
  • Have you tried to install the thunderbird and thunderbird-locale-de packages from the Ubuntu archive instead of that PPA?
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Jan 17, 2016 at 18:38
  • @dadexix86 Thank you! It appeared in Add-ons/Languages, but was disabled there by default. After enabling it and restarting Thunderbird, the localization is correct. Would you please convert your comment into an answer?
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Jan 17, 2016 at 20:47
  • @byte-commander I wrote it as an answer.
    – dadexix86
    Jan 17, 2016 at 22:17

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Launch Thunderbird and navigate to the menu Tools → Add Ons, go to the Languages tab and make sure that you have enabled the German language package.

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