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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 1.1.2 and language support problem
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-10-19 8:47:13
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Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Carlo Robazza wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have run into a situation that I find very confusing and was hoping
> > someone could explain what is going on. In Control Center, the languages
> > module (kcmlocale), if you set all languages to US English, then the
> > word "color" appears as "color". If you set any one of the 3 choices to
> > UK English, then "color" appears as "colour" (the UK spelling).
> >
> > Now, if the US spelling for "color" can be found when all three choices
> > are set to US English, then why can't it be found when one of the
> > choices is set to UK English?
> >
> 
> The second and third locale selectors are fallbacks. That means that the
> first selection will be checked for locale matches. If no avail, the
> matching is attempted using the second selection. But if matching the
> first selection succeeds the other two are happilly ignored.
> 
> That means, it the UK English has to be selected *in the first selector*
> in order to the UK English to be used.
> 
> What I use (and I do so just for the fun of it, just because this is so
> handy and so unavailable in the computer industry that it's funny :-):
> selector 1) Romanian (romanian gets preferentially matched)
> selector 2) French   (if occasionally the romanian translation misses)
> selector 3) C        (if no translation at all exists)
> 
> You can joily see on my desktop apps with Romanian menus and French status
> bars, which pop up English dialogs :-)
> 
Hmm, no. I would like to have a proof for that. :) KLocale tries hard to
make
sure that each and every app only appears in one language - only if the
romanian
translation is not fully done, some words will appear in Romanian. But I
can't
see how French and Romanian could be mixed. 

The selectors you change only affect the lookup of appname.mo and
kdelibs.mo

Greetings, Stephan

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