Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 246376
smolt registers different language codes for Romanian language
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:09 EST
Description of problem: Hello, Sorry - I know this bug is not really smolt-related, but I was unable to correctly identify the real package where to address the bug. If one views the statistics page at http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats, the "Languages" tab, he/she may note that Romanian language appears twice: as "ro_RO.UTF-8" and as "ro_RO.UTF_8". This denaturates statistics about the real position of the Romanian language as number of installations/usage. How reproducible: Always. Actual results: Romanian language appears twice in the statistics: as "ro_RO.UTF-8" and as "ro_RO.UTF_8". Expected results: Romanian language should appear only once, as "ro_RO.UTF-8".
I'd say this is a bug in python. The code that pulls out comes from: import os print os.environ['LANG'] I'll take a look and see if I can combine the queries. I'm sure the same issue applies to other languages as well. Here's a question for the translations folks. Is there any difference (at least as far as you guys care) between de_DE de_DE.UTF-8 de_DE@euro ?
Some points that might help: 1. de_DE means: German of Germany. "de" by itself means German, independently of location. Some languages (like portuguese) are different between locations, but others (like greek) are the same. 2. When the language is used everywhere the same, translation teams often use just the language code (el), to denote that. However, the gettext standard is to use the complete code (el_GR) in the system, even if the system is not in Greece. 3. The correct encoding notation is UTF-8, not UTF_8. This shouldn't be used to identify a language, because one might use a different encoding, yet his system will use the same language (as an example, greek also uses el_GR.ISO-8859-7. All these should be combined to one number (el_GR). 3. Some language codes (like the third) define a special character set. I don' know which application defines this strange @euro suffix, but again, it shouldn't be considered a language differentiation.
Hello, Just a short note: In RedHat-like systems, language is set in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and keyboard layout is in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard. I always modify the first file after installing my systems and the modification is immediate: running smoltSendProfile „see” the modification without rebooting the machine. It seems that on some systems or distros /etc/sysconfig/i18n incorrectly contains "ro_RO.UTF_8" instead of "ro_RO.UTF-8". Can someone confirm this (in *default* configuration) ? Regards, Răzvan
It seems the package that contains these national codes is iso-codes. I think that this bug - that is not really smolt-related - must be handled by the owner of /etc/sysconfig/i18n - am I wrong ? Răzvan
This seems to be a bug in anaconda - please see bug #327431. I'm closing this now. Regards, Răzvan *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 327431 ***