Στις 09/04/2012 11:35:52 You-Cheng Hsieh γράψατε: > 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 >
Thanks, i understand better. I was nt sure because first i tried to switch to French and it worked. Of course the fr/ folder somehow existed with the translations. The pull of translations with locales-xx would be a comfort way to switch the environment language. -- Dimitrios Glentadakis
