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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 13:32:05
Message-Id: 20080521133158.GA26164@crowfix.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question by Mick
1 On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:26:58AM +0100, Mick wrote:
2 > Mine has been set to LINGUAS="en_GB el" for many years now, but mplayer still
3 > shows up with scrambled characters on the terminal (aterm/rxvt). However,
4 > when rebuilt like:
5 >
6 > LINGUAS="en_US" emerge -DV mplayer
7 >
8 > no more scrambled messages! This tells me that mplayer's translations are
9 > partial to the particular LINGUAS flags and probably affected by what
10 > character sets your terminal can show.
11
12 I have also found that when LINGUAS is set to multiple values, emerge
13 -pv sorts them when it shwos what it would do:
14
15 # LINGUAS="en_US en_GB en" emerge -pv --nospinner mozilla-firefox-bin
16
17 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
18
19 Calculating dependencies ... done!
20 [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0_rc1 [3.0_beta5-r1] USE="-restrict-javascript" LINGUAS="en en_GB en_US" 0 kB
21
22 Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB
23
24 Whether or not this reported order is what it actually uses, I don't
25 know and don't know how to find out.
26
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