Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-13 Thread Didier Roche
2009/2/9 Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com: Due to the reasons Colin pointed out, I think that installing them all by default is still a good choice. It comes on the CD, so you don't need to download them during installation, and after installation you can always remove them completely with

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-08 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
Ok, I understand, but what about these packages? myspell-en-au myspell-en-gb myspell-en-za openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au thunderbird-locale-en-gb wbritish You need to have English support in 2 types (UK and US) of

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Surfaz Gemon Meme [2009-02-09 0:56 +0100]: Ok, I understand, but what about these packages? myspell-en-au myspell-en-gb myspell-en-za openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au thunderbird-locale-en-gb wbritish You

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Loïc Martin
Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: Firts, I don't understand why language-support-translations-XX install a package(s) thunderbird-locale-xx-XX when Ubuntu don't install thunderbird mail client by default... Ubuntu uses evolution as mail client, non? It's due to the way translations are handled in

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
2009/2/5 Surfaz Gemon Meme surfa...@gmail.com: 2009/2/5 Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com: There are different values of know. They might know enough English to file a bug saying Firefox crashed but then the logs they post will be in, for example, Croatian. Most triagers don't speak

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
2009/2/6 Paul Smith p...@mad-scientist.us: I thought I'd just post this so everyone is on the same page WRT internationalization in GNU/Linux systems. For those that already know, sorry for the noise :-) GNU/Linux uses the gettext package for i18n. There are other packages used by other

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-04 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
OK, and the second response 2009/2/3 Surfaz Gemon Meme surfa...@gmail.com: Well, Spanish support of Ubuntu is not full and if I uninstall all English packages (I always do it), I don't have any problem. If there is something untranslated to Spanish, Ubuntu shows me in English. I am not a

Fwd: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-04 Thread Evan Murphy
Response from Tom. I think he meant to send it to everybody (or at least the one who asked the question--Surfaz). Evan Murphy -- Forwarded message -- From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Date: 2009/2/4 Subject: Re: Ubuntu and language packs To: Evan Murphy evanrmur

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-04 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
With regards to the answer you got below ... I am surprised that en-gb is considered the 'default' when american-english is also impossible to get rid of. American is the only language that is complete in any release whereas en-bg or en(uk) always lacks many thousands of strings! Much as i

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-03 Thread Evan Murphy
Sorry, the original question was missing from that last forward. Here it is: Hi! I have some doubts * Why Ubuntu install English support by default, although I chose Spanish support? I don't want waste 130~ mb space of my hard disk. It strikes me that during the installation of Ubuntu is