Can we put more load on Fedora/RedHat packagers ?? To isolate the language files of every package, and put them all in a separate language RPM for every language ?? I know, it wouldn't be a single RPM file...but we have to find a way really. Do you think we should post this upstream ?
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 11:50 pm, sabdelg@redhat.com wrote:
Bring it on!
Post a thread per bug, explain the bug, point a fix/patch. Let us discuss them, and we can then open a bug to get it fixed.
Sherif
Quoting Munzir Taha munzirtaha@newhorizons.com.sa:
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sabdelg@redhat.com:
Today I checked the Arabic locale .mo files by doing locate .mo. I was astonished to find my poor laptop doesn't only have Arabic and English languages installed but every language one can dream of. This makes a total of 332MB on my hard disk. Now I am going to remove them manually which is not something to be recommeded since it breaks package validation. Any one here knows why is this? Any solution? Should I tell Sherif to file a bug? ;)
can you do the following against some of the .mo files:
rpm -qf /path/to/file.mo
Each rpm package contains all the languages packed within it. For example, rpm -qf locale/ru_RU/cups_ru_RU cups-1.1.23-15.1
I would like to know which RPM is installing the files, and if they are all coming from one RPM.
no not from one RPM
Also, if there is deps that is being statisfied by installing these files befor we can say it should not be there or it need to be fixed.
I am not speaking about installing an input method for CJK or the like. Every package, every game, every screen saver ;) is installed with all the languages. If you can push things regarding to locales and glibc from inside redhat, then I would be happy to tell you about other arabic-related bugs where I feel the redhat guy there is not cooperative enough ;)
Another point is I am missing the all the Arabic locales files like LC_TIME, LC_COLLATE, ... and hence I can't display the date in Arabic. There is is also no ar_xx locales for different Arabic countries - only a standard ar! May be I am missing something obvious?
You wiwll need ar_xx if you have different translations for different countries. But as I can see it. For example, you have UK Vs. UK because there are a team who is translating or providing the differnet version of certain words from UK. Hence, once we have different groups from different countries who speaks arabic, and they speak in different dialog and want different translation, you can then see or ask for different ar_xx :) (at least that's how I think it is)
No Sherif, it's not like this. The point of different ar_xx is not mainly concerned with the Arabic language translation but with locales. In other words, the ar_xx folder should contain the files that correspond each country to it's numbers system, calendar system, .... For example, in Saudi Arabia, we use Hijri Calendar as an official calendar and we use Hindi numerals where as in Morocco they use Gregorian Calendar and Arabic numerals. The ar_xx should take care of all this with the LC_TIME and LC_NUMERIC. Say the same thing with regards to currency symbol, ...
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