No localisation enabled

[Igor Zubarev]

Binary package hint: mplayer

Mplayer doesn't have russian localization in Dapper and Feisty at all.
Only English. I know russian interface was in Breezy but broken in Dapper.

[Sergous (sergous)]

I confirm this bug, please add mplayer and gmplayer translation to launchpad for our translators.

[Georgy Faradzhev (georgy-faradzhev)]

I can confirm these bugs as well. Please, do something with it.

[Sergey Ivanov (rus-patriot)]

Confirm aforesaid bugs.

[Сергей Ирюпин (lamp-mirmebeli)]

I confirm this bug, please add mplayer and gmplayer translation to launchpad for our translators.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Mplayer is not imported in Launchpad/Rosetta because it's a package from main and we are not (yet) able to handle those translations with language packs so what the package ships is exactly what upstream had at the time it was packaged in Ubuntu.

What I don't know, and should be checked by Mplayer maintainers in Ubuntu, is whether the package has any problem with the Russian translation provided by upstream and that's why you get it in English. You will need to wait for them to get an answer on it.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

It is issue in Feisty too.
Not only in Dapper.

[Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)]

Is the lack of Russian translation still a problem in Hardy?

Thanks!

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Yes. No russian localization in Hardy.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

mplayer upstream is not localised itself. What makes you think it was at some point localised?

[Alexander Ponyatykh (lazyranma)]

Russian localization exists in help/help_mp-ru.h, and could be enabled with ./configure --language=ru (plus some outdated mans)./m

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

The problem is that mplayer's localisation is only working at compile time. If comment #11 was implemented, mplayer wasn't able to print messages in english any more.

We'd really need someone to convert mplayer's localisation system to gettext. Any volunteers please get in touch with me privately.