[gentoo-dev] RFC: LINGUAS usage

[gentoo-dev] RFC: LINGUAS usage

[Justin (jlec)]

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Hi,

I am in trouble about he meaning of LINGUAS in a certain context.

The program supports

a) different interface languages

and

b) different languages for the content text, like hyphenation, localized
loremipsum and so.

If you are setting LINGUAS="fr_FR en_GB fi", what do you expect to see in the end?

a, b or a+b honouring LINGUAS?

Thanks for your input,
Justin


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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: LINGUAS usage

[Alexis Ballier]

On Mon, 18 May 2015 18:25:35 +0200
"Justin (jlec)" <jlec@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am in trouble about he meaning of LINGUAS in a certain context.
> 
> The program supports
> 
> a) different interface languages
> 
> and
> 
> b) different languages for the content text, like hyphenation,
> localized loremipsum and so.
> 
> If you are setting LINGUAS="fr_FR en_GB fi", what do you expect to
> see in the end?
> 
> a, b or a+b honouring LINGUAS?

I'd say a+b, with a) selectable by classical LC_* or LANG variables and
b) selectable by some interface probably.

that's what is done for texlive: LINGUAS pulls related packages that
install localized docs when applicable but also give you support for
hyphenations & co; however, no default is changed and you still have to
ask for babel to get proper hyphenations when compiling your .tex.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: LINGUAS usage

[Justin (jlec)]

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On 18/05/15 19:11, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2015 18:25:35 +0200
> "Justin (jlec)" <jlec@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am in trouble about he meaning of LINGUAS in a certain context.
>>
>> The program supports
>>
>> a) different interface languages
>>
>> and
>>
>> b) different languages for the content text, like hyphenation,
>> localized loremipsum and so.
>>
>> If you are setting LINGUAS="fr_FR en_GB fi", what do you expect to
>> see in the end?
>>
>> a, b or a+b honouring LINGUAS?
> 
> I'd say a+b, with a) selectable by classical LC_* or LANG variables and
> b) selectable by some interface probably.
> 
> that's what is done for texlive: LINGUAS pulls related packages that
> install localized docs when applicable but also give you support for
> hyphenations & co; however, no default is changed and you still have to
> ask for babel to get proper hyphenations when compiling your .tex.
> 

Thanks for the input. That solution was also what I had in mind.

Justin


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