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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 23:02:32
Message-Id: 20080518230225.GA13248@crowfix.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question by Graham Murray
1 On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:02:07PM +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
2 > "Micha?? 'shpaq' Laszuk" <shpaq@××××.org> writes:
3 >
4 > > The LINGUAS variable should be only "en". en_US is a localization.
5 >
6 > In that case why do packages such as mozilla-firefox support (amongst
7 > others) linguas_en, linguas_en_GB and linguas_en_US? They use the
8 > LINGUAS variable to select which localised language packs to install. So
9 > 'LINGUAS="en_US en"' is perfectly valid.
10
11 I have had bad luck with LINGUAS. I tried setting it to all the
12 languages I knew of --
13
14 LINGUAS="en_US af ar az bg bn br bs ca cs cy da de el en_GB eo es et eu fa fi fr fy ga gl he hi hr hu is it ja km ko lt lv mk mn ms nb nds nl nn pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru rw se sk sl sr sr@Latn ss sv ta tg tr uk uz zh_CN zh_TW"
15
16 out of curiousity, and mplayer, for one, picks something other than
17 "en_US" as the default -- all error messages come out like this --
18
19 AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
20 ÐапоÑва вÑзпÑоизвежданеÑо...
21 [h264 @ 0xb049c0]brainfart cropping not supported, this could look slightly wrong ...
22 VDec: заÑвка на vo config - 480 x 360 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
23 VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
24 ÐÑопоÑÑииÑе на Ñилма Ñа 1.33:1 - маÑабиÑане до пÑавилниÑе пÑопоÑÑии .
25 VO: [xv] 480x360 => 480x360 Planar YV12
26 A: 2.2 V: 2.2 A-V: 0.005 ct: 0.023 0/ 0 10% 2% 1.9% 1 0
27 Ðзлизане Ð¾Ñ Ð¿ÑогÑамаÑа... (ÐзÑод)
28
29 If I remerge it with "LINGUAS=en_US", it shows this:
30
31 AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
32 Starting playback...
33 [h264 @ 0xb00a40]brainfart cropping not supported, this could look slightly wrong ...
34 VDec: vo config request - 480 x 360 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
35 VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
36 Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
37 VO: [xv] 480x360 => 480x360 Planar YV12
38 A: 5.1 V: 5.1 A-V: -0.000 ct: 0.023 0/ 0 10% 1% 1.2% 1 0
39 Exiting... (Quit)
40
41 One merge of firefox beta picked some language other then en for its
42 messages, menus, etc.
43
44 What is LINGUAS supposed to do?
45
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Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>