Hi Francisco, Francisco Ares wrote:
> Hi, all. > > My locale language is "pt_BR" (Brazilian Portuguese), and many > applications now support native translations. > > And there is the "pt" possible LINGUAS entry, and there is no "pt_PT" > (Portugal spoken Portuguese), for instance, neither any derivatives for > other Portuguese speaking countries, which possibly have their own > regional differences. > > There are a few applications that do not distinguish "pt_BR" from "pt" and > treat Portuguese language as simply "pt". An example is the OCR program > "tesseract", that builds language specifics according to the LINGUAS > environment variable. > > Is there a way for specifying particular "LINGUAS" for individual > packages? I would not like to have to build dozens of applications to > include "pt" to my "LINGUAS" definition just to have "tesseract" to > include > my native language support. I've found some old messages about this on > the net, but did not get any real solution. > > Or should I ask the "tesseract" package maintainer to add "pt_BR" to the > available options? You can set this individually for every package. My LINGUAS is set to "en" only (I hate localized man pages), but I have entries in my package.use file to turn on linguas individually. e.g.: app-office/libreoffice-l10n linguas_de linguas_en_GB linguas_fr offlinehelp Cheers, Jörg
