Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > tag 452727 + wontfix > > * Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-24 20:16:38 CET]: >> If you try to change the language in wesnoth and don't have the locale, it >> will >> do nothing, printing this warning in the terminal: >> >> WARNING: setlocale() failed for es_ES. >> >> Building with --enable-dummy-locales and installing them fixes this. > > Yes - but using that hack only enables it for wesnoth; which is a bad > thing IMHO. If someone really wants to use a language one shouldn't be > lured into "well, then I only have it in this or that application" but > rather should properly enable it in the system.
That doesn't look ideal to me, but installing wesnoth locales isn't ideal either :-) > > I've talked with upstream about this a while ago and we thought about > another approach: The languages that aren't enabled in the system will > get greyed out and not selectable. This though needs a bit until it gets > implemented. I look forward to see that! > >> I did this in Ubuntu [1] [2] and it worked fine, there have been no reports >> about anything broken or something. > > It works fine - for wesnoth only. I am not really convinced that > enabling this hack in the wesnoth package is the right approach, I am > pretty much for telling the users to enable the locales they want to use > systemwide, not narrow themself down to a single application. > >> If this is harmless it would be nice to enable it, since there are users >> which >> will want to play wesnoth in a different language than the one they installed >> the system (this happened to me when trying to play in Spanish, since my >> system >> is in English). > > There is no problem at all with enabling spanish locales next to > english ones, too. > > Thanks for your report anyway, it's appreciated. It's just - in this > point we propably disagree. But don't let this hold you back with > further reports along these lines. Don't worry, I'll annoy you with my reports as much as I can ;-) Seriously, no probs. And you have even convinced me, although I still don't think a user should install a locale, but I understand that installing them in wesnoth is not the way to go, since if everyone did this we would have all the locales installed in every package :-) Take care, Emilio > So long, > Rhonda >
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