Bug 532487 - Legacy Norwegian locale (no_NO) should be removed from language selection menu
Summary: Legacy Norwegian locale (no_NO) should be removed from language selection menu
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: jmccann
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-02 15:28 UTC by Tore Anderson
Modified: 2015-01-14 23:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-12-04 03:32:57 UTC
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Description Tore Anderson 2009-11-02 15:28:58 UTC
Description of problem:

On the login screen of the Live CD, a total of three Norwegian language variants/locales are offered as options:  no_NO (Norwegian), nb_NO (Norwegian Bokmål), and nn_NO (Norwegian Nynorsk).

However there's no such thing as simply «Norwegian», it's either bokmål or nynorsk (and these are equally official) - quoting from Wikipedia's page on the Norwegian language:

As established by law and governmental policy, there are two official forms of written Norwegian – Bokmål (literally "book language") and Nynorsk (literally "new Norwegian"). The Norwegian Language Council recommends the terms "Norwegian Bokmål" and "Norwegian Nynorsk" in English.

In 2003 this was fixed in glibc by making nb_NO and nn_NO the two proper alternatives, while no_NO was kept as an alias for nb_NO (for compability reasons, I assume).  See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=83276 for details about that.

The Live CD should therefore not offer no_NO as an alternative, as its use is deprecated - and it's confusing for Norwegians to have a third option where it should only be two.  Also Anaconda does not handle the legacy locale at all and crashes at startup if the system locale is set to no_NO, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528317 .

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

F12 Beta

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from Live CD
2. Select language menu before auto-login timer expects
3.
  
Actual results:

Three variants of Norwegian is available for selection.


Expected results:

Only two variants of Norwegian should be available (nb_NO and nn_NO).

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tore Anderson 2009-11-03 06:50:13 UTC
Oh and by the way.  The current three alternatives are shown as follows:

Norsk, bokmål (Norge)
Norsk (nynorsk) (Noreg)
Norwegian (Norway)

The third one should be removed, as already explained.

However the other two shouldn't be inconsistently named.  Either buth both "bokmål" and "nynorsk" after a comma, or put both of them in parenthesis...

(If you want I can ask the Norwegian language council what's the recommended syntax.)

Tore

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 14:53:23 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-12-04 03:32:57 UTC
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