#6051 HIGH Update.: sugar-control-panel does not support setting the language to Amharic

[Jim Gettys]

We did have a report of setting the locale to Turkish in trac that
caused the machine to lose its cookies entirely.

I don't remember the root cause, or whether it has been solved.
                               - Jim

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 19:41 +0000, Zarro Boogs per Child wrote:
> #6051: sugar-control-panel does not support setting the language to Amharic
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>   Reporter:  bernie        |       Owner:  erikos                           
>       Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                              
>   Priority:  high          |   Milestone:  Update.1                         
>  Component:  localization  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
> Resolution:                |    Keywords:                                   
>   Verified:  0             |    Blocking:                                   
>  Blockedby:                |  
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> 
> Comment(by bernie):
> 
>  Replying to [comment:2 erikos]:
>  > I created the list from /usr/share/system-config-language/locale-list
>  The reason why we can not just use 'locale -a' is that we need to do the
>  mapping (or at least i thought we should) from the locale e.g. am_ET.UTF-8
>  to something more meaningful like Amharic/Ethiopian.
> 
>  Human readable names are available too:
> 
>   locale -a -v
> 
>  There may be glibc APIs to extract this information programmatically, but
>  from Python it may be easier to just popen this command and parse its
>  output.
> 
>  I believe the language and country name will come out translated in the
>  current locale, which may be good or bad.  If we want to always force
>  English, just do:
> 
>   LANG=C locale -a -v
> 
> 
>  > Maybe we should have two options, one to have a mapping for the
>  languages we support (a file s.c.p reads in) and then another option that
>  you can set any locale you like (for example for people to test).
> 
>  An easy way to automatically detect which locales are supported, at least
>  partially, is checking for the existence of the sugar catalog for it.
> 
>  But there's no harm in setting a locale for which there exist no
>  translations: the UI will come up in English and some of the locale
>  specific settings, such as the date format, may at least be set correctly.
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child