[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS issue

[Jörg Schaible]

Hi Francisco,

Francisco Ares wrote:

> Hi, all.
>
> My locale language is "pt_BR" (Brazilian Portuguese), and many
> applications now support native translations.
>
> And there is the "pt" possible LINGUAS entry, and there is no "pt_PT"
> (Portugal spoken Portuguese), for instance, neither any derivatives for
> other Portuguese speaking countries, which possibly have their own
> regional differences.
>
> There are a few applications that do not distinguish "pt_BR" from "pt" and
> treat Portuguese language as simply "pt". An example is the OCR program
> "tesseract", that builds language specifics according to the LINGUAS
> environment variable.
>
> Is there a way for specifying particular "LINGUAS" for individual
> packages?  I would not like to have to build dozens of applications to
> include "pt" to my "LINGUAS" definition just to have "tesseract" to
> include
> my native language support.  I've found some old messages about this on
> the net, but did not get any real solution.
>
> Or should I ask the "tesseract" package maintainer to add "pt_BR" to the
> available options?

You can set this individually for every package. My LINGUAS is set to "en" 
only (I hate localized man pages), but I have entries in my package.use file 
to turn on linguas individually. e.g.:

app-office/libreoffice-l10n linguas_de linguas_en_GB linguas_fr offlinehelp


Cheers,
Jörg