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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Impossible to change the locale to Greek language (el)</H1>
<B>You-Cheng Hsieh</B>
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<I>Mon Apr 9 11:17:02 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>2012/4/9 Dimitrios Glentadakis <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">dglent at gmail.com</A>>:
><i> I installed cauldron in virtualbox in English locale.
</I>><i> I try to switch to Greek (el) but even after reboot the enviroment is always in English
</I>><i>
</I>><i> What i did:
</I>><i> I installed the locales-el package and after choosing the Greek localisation in MCC i have the follow folders:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> /usr/share/locale
</I>><i> el_CY/
</I>><i> el_CY.UTF-8/
</I>><i> el_GR/
</I>><i> el_GR.UTF-8/
</I>><i>
</I>><i> these folders dont contain any translation file.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> in my Mageia 1 system the translations are situated in
</I>><i> /usr/share/locale
</I>><i> el/
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The drakconf.mo file i can find it in :
</I>><i> drakconf:/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/drakconf.mo
</I>><i> and no in any of the el_GR* folders
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> 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..
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It is an issue that worth to open a bug report ?
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> --
</I>><i> Dimitrios Glentadakis
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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.
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