Ubuntu and language packs

2009-09-29 Thread raneesh
hai can you send details of how to add more local languages in ubuntu 9 desktop editions. i am waiting valuable help from yours side. thanks , reny -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-09-29 Thread Arne Goetje
raneesh wrote: can you send details of how to add more local languages in ubuntu 9 desktop editions. you can install additional language packs by using System-Administration-Language Support Or do you mean how to translate into yet unsupported languages? Cheers Arne signature.asc

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-10 Thread Siegfried-Angel
2009/2/5 Loïc Martin loic.mart...@gmail.com: Firts, I don't understand why language-support-translations-XX install a package(s) thunderbird-locale-xx-XX when Ubuntu don't install thunderbird mail client by default... Ubuntu uses evolution as mail client, non? It's due to the way

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Surfaz, Surfaz Gemon Meme [2009-02-03 0:06 +0100]: * Why Ubuntu install English support by default, although I chose Spanish support? AFAIR this is primarily for historical reasons. In fact I don't see a lot of reasons to install all English translations/support packages by default,

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:56:50PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: Surfaz Gemon Meme [2009-02-03 0:06 +0100]: * Why Ubuntu install English support by default, although I chose Spanish support? AFAIR this is primarily for historical reasons. In fact I don't see a lot of reasons to install all

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-08 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
Ok, I understand, but what about these packages? myspell-en-au myspell-en-gb myspell-en-za openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au thunderbird-locale-en-gb wbritish You need to have English support in 2 types (UK and US) of

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Surfaz Gemon Meme [2009-02-09 0:56 +0100]: Ok, I understand, but what about these packages? myspell-en-au myspell-en-gb myspell-en-za openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au thunderbird-locale-en-gb wbritish You

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Loïc Martin
Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: Firts, I don't understand why language-support-translations-XX install a package(s) thunderbird-locale-xx-XX when Ubuntu don't install thunderbird mail client by default... Ubuntu uses evolution as mail client, non? It's due to the way translations are handled in

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
2009/2/5 Loïc Martin loic.mart...@gmail.com: Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: Firts, I don't understand why language-support-translations-XX install a package(s) thunderbird-locale-xx-XX when Ubuntu don't install thunderbird mail client by default... Ubuntu uses evolution as mail client, non? It's

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
2009/2/5 Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com: There are different values of know. They might know enough English to file a bug saying Firefox crashed but then the logs they post will be in, for example, Croatian. Most triagers don't speak Croatian, so we can't read the logs. And the reporter

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 22:20 +0100, Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: 2009/2/5 Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com: There are different values of know. They might know enough English to file a bug saying Firefox crashed but then the logs they post will be in, for example, Croatian. Most triagers

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
2009/2/5 Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com: Although the Ubuntu user has installed English translations, he use French as the default language because it was that he chose when he installed Ubuntu. But that option to re-run with LANG=en_US firefox and reproduce the bug to get English logs

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 22:50 +0100, Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: 2009/2/5 Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com: Although the Ubuntu user has installed English translations, he use French as the default language because it was that he chose when he installed Ubuntu. But that option to re-run

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 15:47 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 20:57 +0100, Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: If they know English, do not need English support of Ubuntu. If they do not know English, I do not think the English support of Ubuntu could change something. There are

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 18:14 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: IOW, there's really no reason to specifically install the English language packs, if you don't want to use a locale of en_US or whatever. Certainly you don't need to do it for any sort of debugging purposes. If you want to force no locale to

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
2009/2/6 Paul Smith p...@mad-scientist.us: I thought I'd just post this so everyone is on the same page WRT internationalization in GNU/Linux systems. For those that already know, sorry for the noise :-) GNU/Linux uses the gettext package for i18n. There are other packages used by other

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-04 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
OK, and the second response 2009/2/3 Surfaz Gemon Meme surfa...@gmail.com: Well, Spanish support of Ubuntu is not full and if I uninstall all English packages (I always do it), I don't have any problem. If there is something untranslated to Spanish, Ubuntu shows me in English. I am not a

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-04 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
With regards to the answer you got below ... I am surprised that en-gb is considered the 'default' when american-english is also impossible to get rid of. American is the only language that is complete in any release whereas en-bg or en(uk) always lacks many thousands of strings! Much as i

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-03 Thread Sense Hofstede
2009/2/3 Surfaz Gemon Meme surfa...@gmail.com: Hi! I have some doubts * Why Ubuntu install English support by default, although I chose Spanish support? I don't want waste 130~ mb space of my hard disk. It strikes me that during the installation of Ubuntu is uninstalled many languages

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-03 Thread Evan Murphy
Hi Surfaz, I'm forwarding your question to the ubuntu-translators mailing list, where someone may have an answer. Evan Murphy 2009/2/3 Surfaz Gemon Meme surfa...@gmail.com: Well, Spanish support of Ubuntu is not full and if I uninstall all English packages (I always do it), I don't have any

Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-02 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
Hi! I have some doubts * Why Ubuntu install English support by default, although I chose Spanish support? I don't want waste 130~ mb space of my hard disk. It strikes me that during the installation of Ubuntu is uninstalled many languages (first, why install many languages? I only want one!!),