2015-11-12 16:27 GMT-02:00 <waben...@gmail.com>: > Francisco Ares <fra...@gmail.com> 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. > > You can add locales by editing /etc/locale.gen and running locale-gen. > As i saw in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, pt_PT is supported. > > > 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. > > You can define package specific environment variables for package > builds in /etc/portage/env/ > > If you need package specific environment variables for runtime you > could create simple scripts to set the env and start the program. > > #!/bin/sh > # > # start_tesseract.sh > # > LINGUAS="pt" > tesseract > > Then modify the according menu entries / starter buttons to use the > script. > > > Or should I ask the "tesseract" package maintainer to add "pt_BR" to > > the available options? > > That's a good idea. > > -- > Regards > wabe > >
Thanks Florian, Jörg and wabe, it is finally solved. It happens that I also had LINGUAS set in /etc/profile So, as it seems, this setting bypasses all others. I've had found that "LINGUAS_pt" use flag trick before, in an old post, but as it didn't work at a first attempt, and as the post was a bit old, I supposed that this feature was not in portage anymore. But now with 3 persons saying basically the same thing, I went deeper in my /etc files. The trick brought up by wabe was crucial, as I tried to include another USE flag on the same "env" configuration; when I asked to rebuild tesseract, the USE flag was there, but the LINGUAS wasn't. So I started to look for other instances and found it in that /etc/profile file, edited in 2012, probably when I first installed Gentoo on this machine as a newbie. Going now into a full revision into /etc . Thanks a lot! Francisco