On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 05:23:40PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > With LANGUAGE=en_GB:de_DE, I would have expected English output > > rather than German. > > The problem is that most packages don't have "English" translations: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/big/fsf/local/glibc/intl% ls > /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES | wc > 190 190 2405 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/big/fsf/local/glibc/intl% ls > /usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES | wc > 3 3 29
I agree. On my system, there are actually quite a few "English" translations under en_GB, but none for GNU coreutils, so I'm quite sure this was the reason for the observed behaviour. Now that I knew where to look, I repeated the experiment with xmms, which does provide "English" messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=en_GB LANGUAGE=en_GB:en:de_DE:de xmms --badoption xmms: unrecognised option `--badoption' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=en_GB LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en xmms --badoption xmms: Unbekannte Option �--badoption� The result is now what I expected. > Did that help? Yes, I think I understand now what's going on here. The remaining issues seem to be only documentation-related, I reported them as bug #311259 against glibc-doc. Thank you for your explanations! Mirko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
