On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 11:56:39AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek [2015-01-31 20:20 +0100]: > > I think the implementation is fine, since it is rather trivial, but I'm > > less certain about the implications of setting LANGUAGE in addtion to > > LANG. > > That's totally fine -- it's precisely what $LANGUAGE is meant for. One > must be aware that it is a GNU extension, i. e. software like > thunderbird won't respect it and thus just use $LANG (in which case > you are no worse than now). But pretty much all "native" Linux sofware > does and thus will behave as intended. We've used this schema in > Ubuntu since around 2005 [1]. Thanks. Incomplete support sounds fine.
> Now, I wish such a fallback list would be in upstream glibc so that > OSes, systemd etc. wouldn't have to repeat and maintain it; but while > [1] looks quite complex, it hasn't really changed in years. Looking at the list, I'm wondering about using en_GB as the fallback for most locales. I guess that for European countries it makes some sense, but for Japanese, Kazakh, and many other places, I'd expect en_US to be better last choice. Especially that en_US translation coverage is more complete than en_GB. Also, I'd expect a fallback to Russian before English for Kazakh, it's their second official language. > If this patch goes in, I'm happy to augment the list according to [1] > and then move our language-selector to use that instead, to reduce > duplication. Great. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
