[gentoo-user] LINGUAS issue

[gentoo-user] LINGUAS issue

[Francisco Ares]

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Hi, all.

My locale language is "pt_BR" (Brazilian Portuguese), and many applications
now support native translations.

And there is the "pt" possible LINGUAS entry, and there is no "pt_PT"
(Portugal spoken Portuguese), for instance, neither any derivatives for
other Portuguese speaking countries, which possibly have their own regional
differences.

There are a few applications that do not distinguish "pt_BR" from "pt" and
treat Portuguese language as simply "pt". An example is the OCR program
"tesseract", that builds language specifics according to the LINGUAS
environment variable.

Is there a way for specifying particular "LINGUAS" for individual
packages?  I would not like to have to build dozens of applications to
include "pt" to my "LINGUAS" definition just to have "tesseract" to include
my native language support.  I've found some old messages about this on the
net, but did not get any real solution.

Or should I ask the "tesseract" package maintainer to add "pt_BR" to the
available options?

Thanks a lot for your time,
Francisco

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[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS issue

[Jörg Schaible]

Hi Francisco,

Francisco Ares wrote:

> Hi, all.
> 
> My locale language is "pt_BR" (Brazilian Portuguese), and many
> applications now support native translations.
> 
> And there is the "pt" possible LINGUAS entry, and there is no "pt_PT"
> (Portugal spoken Portuguese), for instance, neither any derivatives for
> other Portuguese speaking countries, which possibly have their own
> regional differences.
> 
> There are a few applications that do not distinguish "pt_BR" from "pt" and
> treat Portuguese language as simply "pt". An example is the OCR program
> "tesseract", that builds language specifics according to the LINGUAS
> environment variable.
> 
> Is there a way for specifying particular "LINGUAS" for individual
> packages?  I would not like to have to build dozens of applications to
> include "pt" to my "LINGUAS" definition just to have "tesseract" to
> include
> my native language support.  I've found some old messages about this on
> the net, but did not get any real solution.
> 
> Or should I ask the "tesseract" package maintainer to add "pt_BR" to the
> available options?

You can set this individually for every package. My LINGUAS is set to "en" 
only (I hate localized man pages), but I have entries in my package.use file 
to turn on linguas individually. e.g.:

app-office/libreoffice-l10n linguas_de linguas_en_GB linguas_fr offlinehelp


Cheers,
Jörg

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS issue

[Florian Gamböck]

Hi Francisco,

On 2015-11-12 15:20, Francisco Ares wrote:
> Is there a way for specifying particular "LINGUAS" for individual
> packages?

Sure there is. In fact, "LINGUAS=pt_BR" is just syntactical sugar for
"USE=linguas_pt_BR". So for your specific case with tesseract, you would add a
line to packages.use, saying:

    app-text/tesseract linguas_pt

Hope that helps!

--Flo

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS issue

[wabenbau]

Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all.
> 
> My locale language is "pt_BR" (Brazilian Portuguese), and many
> applications now support native translations.
> 
> And there is the "pt" possible LINGUAS entry, and there is no "pt_PT"
> (Portugal spoken Portuguese), for instance, neither any derivatives
> for other Portuguese speaking countries, which possibly have their
> own regional differences.

You can add locales by editing /etc/locale.gen and running locale-gen.
As i saw in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, pt_PT is supported.

> There are a few applications that do not distinguish "pt_BR" from
> "pt" and treat Portuguese language as simply "pt". An example is the
> OCR program "tesseract", that builds language specifics according to
> the LINGUAS environment variable.
> 
> Is there a way for specifying particular "LINGUAS" for individual
> packages?  I would not like to have to build dozens of applications to
> include "pt" to my "LINGUAS" definition just to have "tesseract" to
> include my native language support.  I've found some old messages
> about this on the net, but did not get any real solution.

You can define package specific environment variables for package 
builds in /etc/portage/env/

If you need package specific environment variables for runtime you
could create simple scripts to set the env and start the program.

#!/bin/sh
#
# start_tesseract.sh
#
LINGUAS="pt"
tesseract

Then modify the according menu entries / starter buttons to use the 
script.
 
> Or should I ask the "tesseract" package maintainer to add "pt_BR" to
> the available options?

That's a good idea.

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Regards
wabe