Bug 80179
| Summary: | Adding language support? | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Hugo van der Kooij <hugo> |
| Component: | redhat-config-language | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | katzj |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-01-14 02:47:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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All that message means is that setlocale() failed, so it's nothing to do with GTK+. Is the locale you specified actually 'nl'? That isn't a valid locale, you need nl_NL.UTF-8 or nl_NL. Did you try to install Dutch support in some manner? I'm not sure if this is a RFE against redhat-config-packages, or a bug report about the way the libc packages are working. Tried all of the suggested ones and even more so. But the error remains. I have even tried to load additional support according to a suggestion I got from the Psyche mailinglist. I reinstalled glibc-common like: rpm -Uvh glibc-common....rpm --define '_install_langs en,nl' --replacepkgs The output of /usr/bin/locale command still does not show nl support. So I am looking for a way to add language support without reinstalling the system. It does not have to be an easy click and drool solution. Currently there is no easy way to install a language if you didn't install it when you installed the operating system. This is because the translations for each package are contained in each package. To install Dutch for example after installation would require going through each RPM and pull out the translations for Dutch. Jeremy, how do you think we should approach this? First of all, unless we change how translations are handled in every RPM, whatever approach we take will require reinstalling parts of every RPM on the system. Should redhat-config-packages provide the GUI to do this? Or do we need RPM changes to make this easier? My current thinking is that we're going to switch to always installing all translations and then you'll just have to install "language support groups" for things such as fonts and input methods to get full support for languages. Would the following procedure work? 1. Gather all RPM files with `rpm -qa|sort`. 2. On each package execute: `rpm -Uvh $PKG.rpm --define '-install-langs en,nl' --replacepkgs This was suggested on the Psyche mailinglist. Or do I need to perform some extra steps? I plan to write some sort of script to make it relative simple to execute. Jeremy, I like that idea better. Then could we remove the "Language Support" screen in the installer? (please, please, please?) Hugo, I'm not sure if that script would work or not. Might as well give it a try. ;) I wrote down the steps I have taken on: http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/linux-after8.cms#lang2 I am not convinced this is a clean solution and I do appreciate additional information you can give based upon the current installation procedure. (I do not understand the Python code inside anaconda at all.) Hugo, I'm not sure that there *is* a clean solution to the problem, unfortunately. There's no chance to fix it for this release. Deferring. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: Initial installation was done with support for English only. A new user requires support for Dutch but there is no way to add it after the installation. Reinstalling the system is NOT an option. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install without support for Dutch 2. Try to install a Gnome application to handle Dutch Actual Results: $ gnomesword Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Building GnomeSword interface gnomesword-0.7.7 Initiating Sword Sword locale is nl Loading SWORD Modules Expected Results: Usage of the Dutch language module in the application. Additional info: