Description of problem: On the gdm login screen in Japanese, the word "Password" that appears when the user is prompted for her/his password, and the word "Shutdown" which appears in the gdm "panel" at the bottom are not translated into Japanese, ie they appear untranslated in English. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.4.4.5-3 Additional info: This problem also occurred in FC1.
Anyone know which package contains the translation? Is it redhat-artwork? Sarah
Sarah, it is in [bluedot@style bluedot]$ rpm -qf usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gdm-2.4.mo gdm-2.4.1.6-2 However, since it is in the form of; msgid "Shut _down..." You may not be able to find it with "shutdown" string search.
Also after a search... It is translated.. msgid "Shut _down..." msgstr "åæ¢(_d)..."
No, the string that needs translation is "Shut_down" not "Shut _Down". Also "Password: " needs to be changed to "Password:".
I have checked FC1 gdm and confirmed that the strings, "Password:", "Shutdown (in the panel)" and "Incorrect username or password. Letters must be typed in the correct case." are remained in English. But seeing usr/share/local/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gdm.po, there are translations for the above strings. It seems that something prevents these translations to be displayed in gdm.
Noriko, as I said the strings have changed. If you look in gdm-2.4.pot, you will see: "Shut _Down" is now "Shut_down", "Password: " is now "Password:" and "Incorrect username or password. Letters must be typed in the correct case. " "Please be sure the Caps Lock key is not enabled" is now separated and changed to "Incorrect username or password. Letters must be typed in the correct case." & "Please make sure the Caps Lock key is not enabled." [Please copy the strings from gdm-2.4.pot since bugzilla will probably change the linebreaks and spacing here.]
Jens-san, gnome-2.4 seems already been frozen. They are working on 2.6 now. Thus it is not possible to touch frozen file. The changes made has been reflected in 2.6 po file. please see here; http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/status/gnome-2.4/PO/ gdm2.gnome-2-4.ja.po
Look like the ja.po in the upstream cvs is okay, but our package one is not. Should we ask our pkg maintainer to update the po files thru upstream cvs?
Nevermind. Our gdm srpm carries and uses an old obsolete ja.po file. :-( [I'm not sure why that update wasn't done as a patch - presumably because of coding worries?]
because of patching to the po file is horrible. it's always updated when the new one is released. and we almost need rework to apply the patch.
Unfortunately the original intended changes: s/msgstr "%a %b %d, %H:%M"/msgstr "%m/%d (%a) %H:%M"/ and s/msgstr "%a %b %d, %I:%M %p"/msgstr "%m/%d (%a) %p %I:%M"/ haven't gone upstream yet... In the mean time I would suggest to either make the change with sed/perl or to drop it until it goes upstream.
You should see this in rawhide soon.
Thank you, confirmed fixed in both FC Devel and Fc1 Testing.