[dev] Czech translation + gettext problem

Petr Cech cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:26:16 +0200


On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:11:43AM +0200 , Alexander Knauer wrote:
> Is there something special to pay attention to when using Debian and
> gettext??
> My gettext does really nothing, english is the ONLY working language
> indepedently
> which language I export as env-variable. Same behaviour of IMP,
> nevertheless which
> language I select in the drop-drown-box, all text is displayed only
> english.
> Does anyone know of this problem or a website which explains which
> env-variables must
> be set to get gettext working on Debian Linux??

it's not really a gettext issue, but glibc. If you use testing or unstable,
then edit /etc/locale.gen and run locale-gen.
cs_CZ ISO-8859-2
de_DE ISO-8859-1

and such. This is the recommended upstream handling, because you would have
plenty unsused locales generated

> My gettext-version installed 0.10.39-2. installed using Debians dselect.

				Petr Cech
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