[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2010-03-03 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.5.0 --- language-selector (0.5.0) lucid; urgency=low * new UI to allow separate language and locale settings (LP: #40669) (LP: #210776) (LP: #226155) * fixed locale generation code (LP: #236028) -- Arne Goetje

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-11-04 Thread Martin Pitt
Arne, does the language selector write the wrong locale there? ** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-10-30 Thread iongchun
A fresh installed karmic system has these problems too: 1. have to run locale-gen manually after add the language from Language Support 2. GDM_LANG, LANG and LANGUAGE are all set to nan...@latin.utf-8 3. another language which also has @latin variant, sr_RS, seems work fine, but GDM_LANG, LANG

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-10-25 Thread Martin Pitt
iongchun [2009-10-25 1:43 -]: The file (which I guest it should be /etc/defaults/locale) does not No, /etc/default/locale exist for me. Hm, the graphical installer writes it. How did you install Jaunty back then? -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-10-25 Thread iongchun
Right, it is /etc/default/locale, I am sorry that I login into the wrong VM to check it. The content is: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-10-24 Thread Martin Pitt
iongchun [2009-10-24 2:43 -]: Okay, now I understand nan_tw.ut...@latin should be the correct format, so it is GDM that incorrectly set GDM_LANG, LANG and LANGUAGE to nan...@latin.utf-8, right? I don't think that it's gdm which sets it. It should be set on install time in

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-10-24 Thread iongchun
The file (which I guest it should be /etc/defaults/locale) does not exist for me. I upgrade this system from jaunty to karmic, and install Chinese, Min Nan in Language Support. But after that I don't see the language appearing in GDM login screen. So I use Language Support again to set Chinese,

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-10-23 Thread iongchun
Okay, now I understand nan_tw.ut...@latin should be the correct format, so it is GDM that incorrectly set GDM_LANG, LANG and LANGUAGE to nan...@latin.utf-8, right? -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-10-21 Thread iongchun
Not sure what should I with LANG or LANGUAGE, but what I see is: iongc...@ubuntu64:~$ unset LANGUAGE LANG LC_ALL iongc...@ubuntu64:~$ date Wed Oct 21 14:35:02 CST 2009 iongc...@ubuntu64:~$ lang=nan...@latin.utf-8 date Wed Oct 21 14:35:15 CST 2009 iongc...@ubuntu64:~$ lang=nan_tw.ut...@latin date

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Pitt
2009 10g 21 (p3) 14:35:23 CST Does this actually make any sense? -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-10-21 Thread Kaihsu Tai
2009 10g 21 (p3) 14:35:23 CST Does this actually make any sense? Yes, this is an appropriate short form of date in this language, except that CST probably should be TAIST. -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-10-19 Thread Martin Pitt
Right, it isn't. This is because you set LANGUAGE, not LANG. Use LANG and not LANGUAGE, and all is well (see man 3 gettext for details). -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-10-15 Thread iongchun
Does this locale generated correctly? I try it in karmic, gdm set GDM_LANG and LANG to nan...@latin.utf-8, which seems correct. But every application using locale complains, for example: iongc...@ubuntu64:~$ perl perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Pitt
** Changed in: langpack-locales (Ubuntu) Assignee: Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) = Martin Pitt (pitti) -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-06-17 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package langpack-locales - 2.9+git20090617-1 --- langpack-locales (2.9+git20090617-1) karmic; urgency=low * Update to current upstream glibc git head localedata: - Adds nan...@latin. (LP: #236028) * Drop patches accepted upstream: -

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-03-02 Thread Arne Goetje
locale committed to upstream as nan...@latin. Convention is that @ variations need to be lower case and full length spelling. ** Changed in: langpack-locales (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress = Fix Committed -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-02-14 Thread Martin Pitt
This does not have anything to do with the language selector, I believe. Please reopen if it does. It seems you have a half-way working locale now? Could you please send that to http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=glibccomponent=localedata for upstream review/inclusion? Thank

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-01-18 Thread Arne Goetje
** Tags added: pet-bug -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2009-01-18 Thread Arne Goetje
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-11-10 Thread Arne Goetje
thanks for the link... btw: new package is in my PPA. -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-11-06 Thread Kaihsu Tai
Off-topic discussion about the language code: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Teochew#Discussion_with_the_ISO_639-3_Maintenance_Agency -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-27 Thread kiatgak
One question about LC_IDENTIFICATION: --- locale -ck LC_IDENTIFICATION [Enter] LC_IDENTIFICATION title=Minnan language locale for Taiwan source= address= contact=Arne Goetje email=[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel= fax= language=Minnan territory=Taiwan audience= application= abbreviation=

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-27 Thread Kaihsu Tai
kiatgak, 2008-10-27 06:39:27-: One question about LC_IDENTIFICATION: --- locale -ck LC_IDENTIFICATION [Enter] LC_IDENTIFICATION title=Minnan language locale for Taiwan source= address= contact=Arne Goetje email=[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel= fax= language=Minnan

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-27 Thread Kaihsu Tai
Off topic: I just found this page. Great! http://wiki.debian.org/I18n/TaiwanIndigenousLanguages -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-27 Thread Arne Goetje
Kaihsu Tai wrote: Off topic: I just found this page. Great! http://wiki.debian.org/I18n/TaiwanIndigenousLanguages yep, you just found my page. :) I'm in the process of collecting data for their locales and registering them upstream. The goal is to support all actively spoken local languages in

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-27 Thread Arne Goetje
Kaihsu Tai wrote: kiatgak, 2008-10-27 06:39:27-: One question about LC_IDENTIFICATION: --- locale -ck LC_IDENTIFICATION [Enter] LC_IDENTIFICATION title=Minnan language locale for Taiwan source= address= contact=Arne Goetje email=[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel= fax=

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-27 Thread Kaihsu Tai
Hi Arne, Excellent!! I did some work on these languages back in the 1990s. See for example my old paper http://web.archive.org/web/19970808073150/http://www.taiwanese.com/tp/tpsurvey/tpsurvey.pdf (Scary to think that it was more than 10 years ago!) Please do talk with the Presbyterian

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-27 Thread Kaihsu Tai
Arne Goetje, 2008-10-27 14:27:23-: Kaihsu Tai wrote: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=nan While we are at it: 1. ethnologue is not the authoritative data regarding language codes. That's ISO 639-3. Sorry, my fault. But the web version of Ethologue does show ISO 639-3

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-27 Thread Kaihsu Tai
Arne Goetje, 2008-10-27 14:27:23-: 2. There has been a proposal filed at ISO 639-3 to split the nan code into dzu and xim, reflecting the Chaozhou and Xiamen dialects. As they group the Taiwan dialect into the Xiamen group, we should probably use xim_TW in future... ? (

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-26 Thread kiatgak
One problem about LC_MESSAGES: -- locale -ck LC_MESSAGES [Enter] LC_MESSAGES yesexpr=^[sS].* noexpr=^[mM].* yesstr=Sī nostr=M̄-Sī messages-codeset=UTF-8 -- In yesexpr, there is an extra character . -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-24 Thread Kaihsu Tai
I am still using Hardy Heron, but will test once Intrepid Ibex gets released and I upgrade. Thanks, Arne! -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-24 Thread kiatgak
Thanks, Arne! One more question about mon in LC_TIME. in locale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- cal -3 [Enter] káu-goe̍h 2008 cha̍p-goe̍h 2008 cha̍p-it-goe̍h 2008 lp p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 lp p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 lp p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 1 2 3 4 5 61 2

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-24 Thread Kaihsu Tai
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug 236028 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In locale [EMAIL PROTECTED], would mon=1goeÌ#65533;h;2goeÌ#65533;h;3goeÌ#65533;h;4goeÌ#65533;h;5goeÌ#65533;h;6goeÌ#65533;h;7goeÌ#65533;h;8goeÌ#65533;h;9goeÌ#65533;h;10goeÌ#65533;h;11goeÌ#65533;h;12goeÌ#65533;h be more

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-24 Thread Arne Goetje
Kaihsu Tai wrote: This problem needs Kaihsu's confirm. (And Arne's technical review?) Sure. done. Version 2.7.9-6~ppa04 in my PPA. -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-23 Thread kiatgak
Bravo! After -- sudo locale-gen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I tested LC_TIME with the following commands: -- export [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Enter] -- (1) local command -- locale -ck LC_TIME [Enter] abday=lp;p1;p2;p3;p4;p5;p6

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-23 Thread Arne Goetje
kiatgak wrote: abmon=1g;2go;3go;4go;5go;6go;7go;8go;9go;10g;11g;12g should be: abmon 1g;2g;3g;4g;5g;6g;7g;8g;9g;10g;11g;12g fixed the output (date_fmt?) should be 2008 10g 23 p4 21:49:52 TST or something like 2008 10g 23 (p4) 21:49:52 TST fixed in which, the timezone

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-22 Thread Arne Goetje
I have a new package in my ppa. Please go to System - Administration - Software Sources and in the Third-Party Software add the following link: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/arnegoetje/ubuntu intrepid main Then please update the locales package and help testing: sudo locale-gen [EMAIL

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-10-15 Thread Kaihsu Tai
Arne Goetje wrote on 2008-08-28: Despite of this, I have the locale ready for upload. Hi Arne, would you please upload the locale? Cheers. -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-08-28 Thread Kaihsu Tai
Thanks for looking into this. Arne Goetje, 2008-08-28 01:20:06-: One possibility would be to use: abday ji̍t, it, jī, saⁿ, sì, gō͘, la̍k or lé, it, jī, saⁿ, sì, gō͘, la̍k abmon 01g, 02g, 03g, 04g, 05g, 06g, 07g, 08g, 09g, 10g, 11g, 12g Other suggestions? I suggest: abday l-p, p-1, p-2,

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-08-27 Thread Arne Goetje
ok, I have one problem with the current data: The abday and abmon fields: If you look at two typical applications which use these (cal on command line and the calendar applet on gnome), you will find that the calendar applet only uses the first three letters as an abbrevation, while 'cal' even

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-06-17 Thread Arne Goetje
** Changed in: langpack-locales (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = In Progress -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-06-13 Thread Kaihsu Tai
Arne Goetje, 2008-06-13 03:51:55-: I can create one for you, if you help me to translate some terms for it: * abday: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat * day: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday * abmon: Jan. Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun,

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-06-13 Thread Kaihsu Tai
* abday: lé-pài, pài-1, pài-2, pài-3, pài-4, pài-5, pài-6 * day: lé-pài-ji̍t, pài-it, pài-jī, pài-saⁿ, pài-sì, pài-gō͘, pài-la̍k * abmon: 1-goe̍h, 2-goe̍h, 3-goe̍h, 4-goe̍h, 5-goe̍h, 6-goe̍h, 7-goe̍h, 8-goe̍h, 9-goe̍h, 10-goe̍h, 11-goe̍h, 12-goe̍h * mon:

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-06-13 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kaihsu Tai wrote: Further more I need to know the collation of the alphabet: I believe that it's a-z plus o͘, where o͘ gets sorted after o. That is one acceptable solution, but it is not the traditional sorting order, which is something like:

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-06-13 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kaihsu Tai wrote: * am_pm: téng-po·, ē-po· ^^ ^^ I assume that is supposed to be 006F,0358 instead of 006F,00B7 ? Or is it supposed to be a tone mark? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-06-13 Thread Kaihsu Tai
Arne Goetje, 2008-06-13 16:27:06-: I see the only additional characters are o͘ and ⁿ. So, sort them after o and n respectively? I think ‘ⁿ’ should be sorted after ‘z’ rather than between ‘n’ and ‘o’, but I have not thought this through. Let’s sort it after ‘z’ and see what happens.

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-06-12 Thread Kaihsu Tai
Arne: There is no option to use Minnan, because there doesn't exist any locale for Minnan. Are there any instructions on how to create a locale? Further more, as Minnan can be used with Latin script and also with Hant script, we should discuss if it would be better to create two locales and

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-06-12 Thread Arne Goetje
** Changed in: langpack-locales (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: language-selector = langpack-locales Assignee: (unassigned) = Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) Status: New = Confirmed -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-06-12 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kaihsu Tai wrote: Arne: There is no option to use Minnan, because there doesn't exist any locale for Minnan. Are there any instructions on how to create a locale? it's not that complicated, but the locale would need to be submitted to upstream

[Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-06-10 Thread Dereck Wonnacott
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = language-selector -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

2008-06-10 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dereck Wonnacott wrote: ** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = language-selector There is no option to use Minnan, because there doesn't exist any locale for Minnan. Further more, as Minnan can be used with Latin