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

Mon Apr 9 11:35:52 CEST 2012

2012/4/9 You-Cheng Hsieh <yochenhsieh at gmail.com>:
+> 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.
+>>
+>> 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 ?
+>
+> 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.
+I was wrong, No locales are "removed" during the installation, they
+are just never installed.
+https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=49612
+
+> 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.
+It can be found here - Add an option to install missing locales for
+installed rpms:
+https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=31639
+