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language-selector package

  1. Bug #693337
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 693337

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote : Re: [Bug 693337] Re: Menus for choosing language should have one option per available translation

On 01/07/2011 07:03 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> 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?

Probably. You can take a look at the langpack tarball we get from
Launchpad for a complete list of available langcodes in main.

>> 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.

OK.

Cheers
Arne
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