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? > >> * 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. > > 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. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- 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
