2012/4/9 You-Cheng Hsieh <[email protected]>: > 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. >> >> 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
