Francisco Ares <fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all. > > My locale language is "pt_BR" (Brazilian Portuguese), and many > applications now support native translations. > > And there is the "pt" possible LINGUAS entry, and there is no "pt_PT" > (Portugal spoken Portuguese), for instance, neither any derivatives > for other Portuguese speaking countries, which possibly have their > own regional differences.
You can add locales by editing /etc/locale.gen and running locale-gen. As i saw in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, pt_PT is supported. > There are a few applications that do not distinguish "pt_BR" from > "pt" and treat Portuguese language as simply "pt". An example is the > OCR program "tesseract", that builds language specifics according to > the LINGUAS environment variable. > > Is there a way for specifying particular "LINGUAS" for individual > packages? I would not like to have to build dozens of applications to > include "pt" to my "LINGUAS" definition just to have "tesseract" to > include my native language support. I've found some old messages > about this on the net, but did not get any real solution. You can define package specific environment variables for package builds in /etc/portage/env/ If you need package specific environment variables for runtime you could create simple scripts to set the env and start the program. #!/bin/sh # # start_tesseract.sh # LINGUAS="pt" tesseract Then modify the according menu entries / starter buttons to use the script. > Or should I ask the "tesseract" package maintainer to add "pt_BR" to > the available options? That's a good idea. -- Regards wabe
