Bug 817751 - Config tool only shows one language English(USA)
Summary: Config tool only shows one language English(USA)
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-language
Version: 20
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Parag Nemade
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-05-01 05:59 UTC by Simon Lewis
Modified: 2014-06-04 05:25 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: system-config-language-1.3.5-19.fc18
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-12-27 17:33:50 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
image showing list of languages (39.77 KB, image/png)
2012-05-02 04:19 UTC, Pravin Satpute
no flags Details
select langauge diaglogue (27.03 KB, image/png)
2012-05-03 18:16 UTC, Simon Lewis
no flags Details
Screenshot from F20 (18.24 KB, image/png)
2013-12-25 16:41 UTC, Miro Hrončok
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Description Simon Lewis 2012-05-01 05:59:56 UTC
How to make config tool to show a list of languages including British English and German?

Comment 1 Pravin Satpute 2012-05-02 04:19:21 UTC
Created attachment 581520 [details]
image showing list of languages

It already showing it. from terminal start system-config-language and it will show the language list.

if still not clear, please give me some more information regarding what exactly required or missing.

Comment 2 Simon Lewis 2012-05-03 18:16:19 UTC
Created attachment 581921 [details]
select langauge diaglogue

Your screenshot is a lot more interesting than mine - see attachment.

Comment 3 Pravin Satpute 2012-05-07 07:05:40 UTC
I need some more information for reproducing this. example of mine testing

- Fedora 17 Beta
- system-config-language-1.3.5-10.fc17.noarch
- using gnome-shell-3.4.1-3.fc17.x86_64
- tested in locale = mr_IN.UTF-8

Comment 4 Simon Lewis 2012-05-07 19:11:48 UTC
- Fedora 16 installed from net-install-iso
- system-config-language-1.3.5-8.fc16.noarch
- gnome-shell is not installed as I am using KDE SC (currently 4.8.2)
- Occasionally I use razor-qt (from their own repo) under kwin
- locale returns:

[simon@spaceloopxl ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[simon@spaceloopxl ~]$ 

- I really would like to have German (de_DE) and British English (en_GB)

Any help you can give would be much appreciated.

Comment 5 Simon Lewis 2012-05-09 10:07:10 UTC
Any ideas?

Comment 6 Pravin Satpute 2012-05-09 13:47:42 UTC
I tried to reproduce on KDE but still no success, 
1) do you get any error msg while running it from terminal?
2) We are loading /usr/share/system-config-language/locale-list file in s-c-l, can you check its content?

Comment 7 Simon Lewis 2012-05-09 19:41:19 UTC
Hi Pravin

Thanks for your response. There are no error messages when running s-c-l from the terminal and the local list is in s-c-l's share directory.

Rather than trying to use the tool, perhaps someone can give me the commands to switch the language from the command line..?

Simon

Comment 8 Pravin Satpute 2012-05-10 03:58:21 UTC
A) for changing system language. one need to edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n file

1) take backup of that file
2) edit it 

for German (de_DE)
change LANG="en_US.UTF-8"  to LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"

for British English (en_GB)
change LANG="en_US.UTF-8"  to LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"


and restart machine

Comment 9 Simon Lewis 2012-05-11 17:31:47 UTC
OK, I have changed /etc/sysconfig/i18n to:

#LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
#SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en"
#SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
#SYSFONTACM="iso01"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

and rebooted.


On loading initram error message is:

[sdb] no caching page mode is present


kdm starts in German, and kde4 can now be switched to German with KDE's system-settings dialgoue.


I guess I need to rebuild the initram - is there a way to build initram that is multilanguage capable?

Comment 10 Pravin Satpute 2012-09-13 13:56:01 UTC
did you able to solve this problem?

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Comment 12 Pravin Satpute 2013-01-22 11:14:05 UTC
This works well with system-config-language-1.3.5-19.fc18

Comment 13 Parag Nemade 2013-01-31 06:37:29 UTC
I am closing this for now. Can reporter please test against new s-c-l package and report a new bug please?

Thanks.

Comment 14 Miro Hrončok 2013-12-25 16:37:41 UTC
I can reproduce this in Fedora 20 (updated via FedUp from F17).


$ locale
LANG=cs_CZ.utf8
LC_CTYPE="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_TIME="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_PAPER="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_NAME="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="cs_CZ.utf8"
LC_ALL=


However, in system-config-language, I can only see English. GDM is also in English only.

Will attach screenshot.

Comment 15 Miro Hrončok 2013-12-25 16:41:13 UTC
Created attachment 841561 [details]
Screenshot from F20

Comment 16 Parag Nemade 2013-12-26 05:38:50 UTC
you sure you have file /etc/locale.conf?

what is output of file /etc/locale.conf?

what is output of file /etc/sysconfig/i18n?

Comment 17 Miro Hrončok 2013-12-26 12:29:14 UTC
(In reply to Parag from comment #16)
> you sure you have file /etc/locale.conf?
No such file.

> what is output of file /etc/sysconfig/i18n?
LANG="cs_CZ.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Comment 18 Parag Nemade 2013-12-26 13:12:27 UTC
Then I consider what you are saying is not related to system-config-language its systemd issue that you have no /etc/locale.conf file.

F20 reads root system language from /etc/locale.conf

Comment 19 Miro Hrončok 2013-12-26 13:27:49 UTC
Should I create it?

# echo 'LANG="cs_CZ.UTF-8"' > /etc/locale.conf

Comment 20 Parag Nemade 2013-12-26 13:46:07 UTC
try, it should work then.

Comment 21 Miro Hrončok 2013-12-26 14:35:14 UTC
Creating it fixes the system-config-language problem.

Will check GDM soon.

Thanks

Comment 22 Miro Hrončok 2013-12-27 17:33:50 UTC
Fixes GDM also.

Thanks.

Comment 23 Olivier LAHAYE 2014-06-03 12:59:23 UTC
Had the exact same problem and the worked also for me.

Maybe system-config-language could check that /etc/locale.conf is missing ad issue a warning or create a default one?

Comment 24 Parag Nemade 2014-06-03 13:40:23 UTC
This is still a issue present??

/etc/locale.conf is provided by systemd, so system-config-language should only read this file and if this is not present then its problem on your system. We can think on providing warning...

Comment 25 Simon Lewis 2014-06-04 05:25:48 UTC
(In reply to Parag from comment #24)
> This is still a issue present??
> 

Appears to be fixed, I have a full list of languages in the select language dialogue.


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