Comment 32 for bug 553162
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| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote Re: [Bug 553162] Re: Set $LANGUAGE if the user picks a different locale in gdm, so that language-selector and gdm stop disagreeing | #32 |
Gunnar Hjalmarsson [2010-10-05 4:13 -0000]:
> It seems to me that you, and possibly also Martin, assume that $LANG
> ought to correspond to the first language in the $LANGUAGE list.
No, it shouldn't. I wasn't saying that, I was just saying that, since
gdm doesn't have a way to configure $LANGUAGES, there is no point in
faking $LANGUAGES, _because_ $LANG and $LANGUAGES are independent.
> Basically, what I hope to convince you about is that since it's only
> language that the users can set from GDM, and not any other locale
> aspects
No, it's exactly the other way around. gdm has a locale selector, but
not a language list selector.
> If I have understood it correctly, $LANGUAGE is a gettext specific
> variable, and certain applications' inability to understand that
> variable is not a bug per se.
That's correct, $LANGUAGE is a GNU extension.
> Consequently I think that Ubuntu in any case shall provide the
> preferred translation language also via the $LC_MESSAGES variable,
> and I don't think that's a workaround.
I agree, this should indeed be fixed in language-selector.
Thanks,
Martin
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