Chosing Norwegian Installation

[Marius Pedersen]

If you chose Norwegian you get Danish. The texts are all in Danish, and you
cannot chose the Norwegian keymap (this keymap issue has been reported earlier
by somebody else though)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Which messages are in Danish? Is this before the first reboot?

[Marius Pedersen (m-a-pede)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Which messages are in Danish? Is this before the first reboot?

The language gets set to Danish instead of Norwegian. The whole os is in Danish
if you chose norwegian

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

da is set as a very low-priority fallback language, but beyond that I have no
idea what might be causing this. What CD did you use to perform the installation?

Can you please send the contents of /etc/environment? Thanks.

[Øivind Hoel (eruin)]

Okay, this has been bugging me a while too. This is off a pretty fresh hoary
install where nothing language-wise has been altered since installation. During
installation I chose nb_NO (norwegian bokmål) as my language.

Trouble is, and I guess this is what the reporter is experiencing too - not all
programs are entirely translated to norwegian, and this is ofcourse our own
fault. Having danish and swedish as fallback languages for norwegian, though, is
*a lot* more confusing than using plain british english. The languages may be
related (norwegian being a revised form of danish), but more often than not, the
language constructs deviate enough to make a mixed-language desktop very
confusing to use.

My proposal to fix this issue is simply dropping danish and swedish as fallbacks
for norwegian, while keeping the current en_GB:en fallbacks.

My /etc/environment:

LANGUAGE="nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:da:sv:en_GB:en"

LANG=no_NO.UTF-8

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

I second the motion to drop fallbacks for Norwegian, it looks silly and is by far one of the most common things people pick on.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I second the motion to drop fallbacks for Norwegian, it looks silly and is by
far one of the most common things people pick on.
>

No objections here.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

localechooser (0.13ubuntu6) breezy; urgency=low

  * Drop fallbacks for Norwegian bokmål and nynorsk (Ubuntu #4172)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:47:06 +0200