On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Jasbir Khehra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > Choosing language as English(India) during the install process makes > en_IN the default locale of the system.But this causes the gtk1 using > applications not to show their menu eg. audaciity,xmms ( > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audacity/+bug/65549 ) . Hey - had this exact same issue yesterday - had to change my locale to en_US to get menus to show up in XMMS - and now I'm having these strange locale issues ;-) - would appreciate some clarity on the issue from someone who knows more about these things :-) . > > Changing the locale to en_US solves this problem somehow. Also noticed > there was no .UTF-8 for en_IN when listing the locales using locale -a > . So generating the en_IN.UTF-8 locale and making it the default, > solves the gtk1 bug plus other irritants. Can you please explain how you "generated the en_IN.UTF-8 locale?" Thanks! > > So my questions are, > a) what is the difference between en_IN and en_IN.UTF-8? > b) why cant en_IN.UTF-8 be the default locale when selecting English > (India) as the preferred language? > > I have noticed this behaviour in Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 , and no other > language packs have been installed. > Can some one check this out in 8.04? > Just to reiterate - this would be a really nice bug to have fixed - I remember this problem popping up some years ago and not having any clue on how to deal with it back then and just cursing Ubuntu -- one doesn't think highly of an operating system when new programs you install show up without any text in their menus or buttons:-(. This seems to be a problem fairly specific to using the en_IN locale, which is, of course, the default locale most people from India end up with. Would be really nice if fixed. (I do believe, though, that applications using gtk2+ have this fixed - I'm fairly certain the new Audacity on the repository has this issue fixed, though not a 100% sure, and XMMS definitely does not have it fixed... ) Thanks for bringing this up - and happy coincedence - I was just dealing with the exact same problem :-) -Sanjay > -Jasbir > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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