[Mageia-dev] Impossible to change the locale to Greek language (el)

Mon Apr 9 11:17:02 CEST 2012

2012/4/9 Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent at gmail.com>:
+> I installed cauldron in virtualbox in English locale.
+> I try to switch to Greek (el) but even after reboot the enviroment is always in English
+>
+> What i did:
+> I installed the locales-el package and after choosing the Greek localisation in MCC i have the follow folders:
+>
+> /usr/share/locale
+> el_CY/
+> el_CY.UTF-8/
+> el_GR/
+> el_GR.UTF-8/
+>
+> these folders dont contain any translation file.
+>
+> in my Mageia 1 system the translations are situated in
+> /usr/share/locale
+> el/
+>
+>
+> The drakconf.mo file i can find it in :
+> drakconf:/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/drakconf.mo
+> and no in any of the el_GR* folders
+>
+>
+> I remember in an older installation that in order to have mcc and terminal messages in Greek i had to choose the localization during the first installation, if not it remained in English. But it was a long time ago and i dont have in my mind more details..
+>
+> It is an issue that worth to open a bug report ?
+>
+>
+> --
+> Dimitrios Glentadakis
+
+Please correct me if I'm wrong about it, as I cannot confirm it right now.
+
+When you install Mageia/Mandriva, all other locale translations,
+except the locales you specified during installation, will be removed.
+So if I install Mageia with Chinese locale, my system won't have
+translations from other languages except Chinese.
+
+Now if you want to add a new language after install, e.g. Greek,
+installing locales-el is not enough. You need the translations, but
+only some of them are available as stand-alone packages, e.g.
+kde-l10n-el, firefox-el, libreoffice-langpack-el. For other softwares,
+the translations will be installed when the packages updates are
+available, or you have to re-install the packages which contains *.mo
+files.
+
+I remember there was a discussion in Mandriva i18n list about how to
+improve language selection/localedrake behavior, e.g. download
+localepacks which includes translations/mo files.
+