[Mageia-dev] Impossible to change the locale to Greek language (el)

You-Cheng Hsieh yochenhsieh at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 11:35:52 CEST 2012


2012/4/9 You-Cheng Hsieh <yochenhsieh at gmail.com>:
> 2012/4/9 Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent at gmail.com>:
>> I installed cauldron in virtualbox in English locale.
>> I try to switch to Greek (el) but even after reboot the enviroment is always in English
>>
>> What i did:
>> I installed the locales-el package and after choosing the Greek localisation in MCC i have the follow folders:
>>
>> /usr/share/locale
>> el_CY/
>> el_CY.UTF-8/
>> el_GR/
>> el_GR.UTF-8/
>>
>> these folders dont contain any translation file.
>>
>> I remember in an older installation that in order to have mcc and terminal messages in Greek i had to choose the localization during the first installation, if not it remained in English. But it was a long time ago and i dont have in my mind more details..
>>
>> It is an issue that worth to open a bug report ?
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong about it, as I cannot confirm it right now.
>
> When you install Mageia/Mandriva, all other locale translations,
> except the locales you specified during installation, will be removed.
I was wrong, No locales are "removed" during the installation, they
are just never installed.
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=49612

> So if I install Mageia with Chinese locale, my system won't have
> translations from other languages except Chinese.
>
> Now if you want to add a new language after install, e.g. Greek,
> installing locales-el is not enough. You need the translations, but
> only some of them are available as stand-alone packages, e.g.
> kde-l10n-el, firefox-el, libreoffice-langpack-el. For other softwares,
> the translations will be installed when the packages updates are
> available, or you have to re-install the packages which contains *.mo
> files.
>
> I remember there was a discussion in Mandriva i18n list about how to
> improve language selection/localedrake behavior, e.g. download
> localepacks which includes translations/mo files.
It can be found here - Add an option to install missing locales for
installed rpms:
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=31639


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