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language-selector package

  1. Bug #693337
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 693337

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 693337] Re: Menus for choosing language should have one option per available translation

Arne Goetje [2011-01-07 2:03 -0000]:
> Just keep in mind that each time a universe package gets installed or
> removed, the list of available languages may change then.

Right, that's the downside with this approach. It should only affect
some corner cases, as it'd be very unusual to not have any country
specific translations in the entirety of main, but one in a universe
package?

> Regarding gdm: why would a simple gettext call to iso-codes, like it is
> done in l-s, for the list of available languages/countries be too slow
> at boot time?

gettext is fine, of course. I meant the parsing of the large XML files
that is done in the demo perl script. I assume this is only for the
testing script, as it's quite easy to do.

Thanks,

Martin
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