On 01/07/2011 12:51 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Arne Goetje [2011-01-06 16:32 -0000]: >> What about /usr/share/locale/ ? > > Good point, thanks, I missed that. I think we should offer > > - all languages/locales from /usr/share/langpack-locale/ > > plus > > - the intersection of /usr/share/locale/ and `locale -a` > > Gunnar, how does that sound to you?
Just keep in mind that each time a universe package gets installed or removed, the list of available languages may change then. >>>> * As regards languages with more than one translation: When the >>>> country is not specified, does it matter which of the locales that >>>> is assigned to the LC_MESSAGES environment variable? >>> No, it doesn't >>> for messages. It is relevant for $LANG and other LC_* categories, of >>> course. >> >> Why not? Falling back to en_GB for "English", while the rest of the LC_* >> and LANG is en_US, should surely be avoided. > > en_US does specify a country, though. As we are always going to have > en_GB as an explicit variant, this case doesn't apply to English or > Portugese. I thought this was for the case if we only have "de" > translations, then the country in LC_MESSAGES doesn't matter. right, missed that. I'll shut up now. >>> I guess for the actual implementation in l-s and gdm we don't need >>> to parse /usr/share/xml/iso-codes/, as these already have the >>> translated names of the locales? >> >> hmm? l-s parses /usr/share/xml/iso-codes/ for exactly that reason. > > Right, but it does that already, and gdm doesn't (it'd take too long > during boot). I was referring to Gunnar's perl script which currently > parses those. ah, OK. :) Regarding gdm: why would a simple gettext call to iso-codes, like it is done in l-s, for the list of available languages/countries be too slow at boot time? Is there a notable time difference between calling the translation for a string form iso-codes and calling for a translation from its own translations? Cheers Arne -- Arne Götje (高盛華) <a...@linux.org.tw> PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/685D1E8C Fingerprint: 2056 F6B7 DEA8 B478 311F 1C34 6E9F D06E 685D 1E8C Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/693337 Title: Menus for choosing language should have one option per available translation -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
