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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user]  $LINGUAS question
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwix () iway ! na>
Date:       2008-05-21 14:13:44
Message-ID: 200805211513.44209.uwix () iway ! na
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On Wednesday 21 May 2008, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:26:58AM +0100, Mick wrote:
> > Mine has been set to LINGUAS="en_GB el" for many years now, but
> > mplayer still shows up with scrambled characters on the terminal
> > (aterm/rxvt).  However, when rebuilt like:
> >
> > LINGUAS="en_US" emerge -DV mplayer
> >
> > no more scrambled messages!  This tells me that mplayer's
> > translations are partial to the particular LINGUAS flags and
> > probably affected by what character sets your terminal can show.
>
> I have also found that when LINGUAS is set to multiple values,
> emerge -pv sorts them when it shwos what it would do:
>
>     # LINGUAS="en_US en_GB en" emerge -pv --nospinner
> mozilla-firefox-bin
>
>     These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
>     Calculating dependencies ... done!
>     [ebuild     U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0_rc1
> [3.0_beta5-r1] USE="-restrict-javascript" LINGUAS="en en_GB en_US"
> 0 kB
>
>     Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB
>
> Whether or not this reported order is what it actually uses, I
> don't know and don't know how to find out.

Does it matter in which order languages are emerged?

Uwe

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