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

Mon Apr 9 13:09:54 CEST 2012

Στις 09/04/2012 11:35:52 You-Cheng Hsieh γράψατε:
+> 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
+> 
+
+
+Thanks, i understand better. I was nt sure because first i tried to switch to French and it worked. Of course the fr/ folder somehow existed with the translations. 
+The pull of translations with locales-xx would be a comfort way to switch the environment language.
+
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+
+-- 
+Dimitrios Glentadakis
+