GNU gettext - Bugs: bug #40704, “en” has no effect when it is...
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bug #40704: “en” has no effect when it is used in the variable “LANGUAGE”
Submitter: | Garreau, Alexandre <galex_713> | ||
Submitted: | Mon 25 Nov 2013 08:52:05 PM UTC | ||
Category: | End-user / runtime | Severity: | 3 - Normal |
Item Group: | None | Status: | Not a Bug |
Privacy: | Public | Assigned to: | ueno |
Open/Closed: | Closed |
Tue 22 Apr 2014 06:32:05 AM UTC, comment #3: |
Daiki Ueno <ueno> |
Fri 28 Feb 2014 12:18:25 PM UTC, comment #2: Ah ok, I thought “en” was an alias for the default (C). Why not make it so? It would be more intuitive to have “en” standing for English language.
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Garreau, Alexandre <galex_713> |
Fri 28 Feb 2014 08:06:00 AM UTC, comment #1: Isn't it because coreutils missing "en" message catalog? You can use "C" in that case:
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Daiki Ueno <ueno> |
Mon 25 Nov 2013 08:52:05 PM UTC, original submission:
It seems put “en” is the LANGUAGE environment variable make an internationalized software use English only if used alone.
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Garreau, Alexandre <galex_713> |
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2016-11-27 | haible | Category | None | End-user / runtime | |
Assigned to | None | ueno | |||
2014-04-22 | ueno | Status | None | Not a Bug | |
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Hm, however, "en" message catalogs are already used for certain purpose e.g. gtk+ uses it to assign human readable names to key labels:
I guess we can't change the definition to C. Closing this now anyway.