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ASRI éducation · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 3203 Location: France

Hello,

I need you to solve a problem with Rox-Filer.

In a Rox window, if I rolls the mouse over a desktop file, the comment displayed is in English. Yet the desktop file contains the variable Comment[fr].
Is it the same for you?
Do you have a solution to offer?

Note: I use Puppy Precise 5.7.1 + rox-filer 2.11

Thank you in advance for your help.
Regards,

musher0 · Posted: Thu 02 Apr 2015, 13:50 Post subject:

Hello, ASRI.

Same here...

My LANG variable is set to fr_CA but ROX-Filer is not picking it up.
I looked in the ROX-Filer doc and there's nothing about that problem
there.

If I launch rox with the LANG variable in front, I get the same results as above, plus this message:

musher0 · Posted: Thu 02 Apr 2015, 14:01 Post subject:

Hello again, ASRI.

To add to the above:

In an exchange with mikeb about "pango" errors piling up in the xerrs.log
file*, he mentioned that the glibc library might have to be recompiled
from scratch to solve the non-recognition of UTF-8 locales.

I would suggest that this is a similar problem. If the C libraries** that
Puppy relies upon do not have / do not recognize / are not compiled with
localizations, we non-Anglophones are stuck with English only in a number
of applications.

BFN.

musher0
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* Ref. : http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=833801&sort=lastpost&search_id=1181903646#833801
and ff.
** And maybe GTK libraries also.

ASRI éducation · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 3203 Location: France

@ musher0
Thank you for that informations.
Regards

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11233

who me!!!

well glibc localizations are in /usr/lib/locale ... add what you like I believe. They either come as made or built on demand. There may be other factors blocking locales working but this sounds like a rox issue.

What does another file manager do...eg xfce4 and menu generation/desktop files if LANG is set ?

I worked through speeding up the personalise/localize wizard in lucid so learned a few things along the way...also ended up 8 times faster as a bonus Smile

I also aplied said knowledge to sorting out a slax install that had locale problems ...in this case hal would not work if I set a locale other than C and there was a locale.alias file present in /usr/share/locale ... weird stuff

So I am no expert but if anything comes to mind i will post it.

mike

ASRI éducation · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 3203 Location: France

L18L · Posted: Fri 03 Apr 2015, 06:08 Post subject:

use Find'N'Run Idea

Not comments are listed but names. Wink

(or report it to rox dev)

ASRI éducation · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 3203 Location: France

musher0 · Posted: Fri 03 Apr 2015, 12:08 Post subject:

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11233

musher0 · Posted: Fri 03 Apr 2015, 12:27 Post subject:

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11233

Ah ok...thanks for the info.

I too had assumed it was maintained but quiet.

One of those watch this space moments.... could one of these forks potentially help with this threads problem?

mike

musher0 · Posted: Fri 03 Apr 2015, 12:45 Post subject:

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11233

That would mean running around eating onion skins while having snow white long hair...sounds fun...

There is quite a bundle here
http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/software.html
but we are looking elsewhere I assume.

mike

edit..I grabbed the 2.11 source anyway...might be an interesting start.

musher0 · Posted: Fri 03 Apr 2015, 13:16 Post subject: