2012/4/9 Dimitrios Glentadakis <[email protected]>: > 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. > > in my Mageia 1 system the translations are situated in > /usr/share/locale > el/ > > > The drakconf.mo file i can find it in : > drakconf:/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/drakconf.mo > and no in any of the el_GR* folders > > > 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 ? > > > -- > Dimitrios Glentadakis
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. 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.
