Translations aren't being applied

[Julián Unrrein]

This affects indicators and date.

Going through the source, those strings are already translatable, and going through the translations page in Launchpad for Spanish shows that they have already been translated.

So those translations aren't picked up by Greeter for some reason.

This also happens with German, which according to Launchpad is 100% translated.

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

Checking it again, I see that all is needed is just a "make pot"...

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

Checking it again (again), indicators where not looked up for translatable strings.

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

I'll still leave this bug report open for a while to see if all translation issues are solved. For example, the date line should already be translated, but it isn't.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Rev 291 confirms this fix, the new strings are picked up

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

@Cody

You are right that new strings are picked up, but translations still aren't applied.

I made sure to apply my language settings system-wide in the Locale plug.

Did you try it there?

[Raphael Isemann (teemperor)]

@junrrein: Can you verify that /etc/default/locale has the correct values? It seems LANG is not correctly set by the plug (at least for me only the change from English->German happens, but changing it from English->German isn't affecting the greeter until i set it by hand in /etc/default/locale.)

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

@teemperor: Indeed, my LANG env variable wasn't correctly set ("es" instead of "es_AR.UTF-8").

However, I'm afraid this issue will remain in new installs. May be an issue with the Locale plug not setting all env variables correctly when changing languages.

[mporten (mathias-porten)]

I have the same problem.
@teemperor: On my system, locale looks like this:
LANG=de_DE
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8

Has LANG to be de_DE.UTF-8?

[ProsjektX (prosjektx)]

At a point in time I could manually set the LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8 in /etc/default/locale to get my locale correct, but it's not working anymore, after some update I think. So now the greeter is english regardless.