Re: [Launchpad-users] [Bzr-l10n] Any French, Russian, Lithuanian or Chinese speakers around?

[Algis Kabaila <akabaila@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:08:25 am Martin Pool wrote:
> 2010/3/19 Algis Kabaila <akabaila@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:29:30 pm Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> >> Кабаков Александр Сергеевич пишет:
> >> > 2010/2/21 Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >>
> >> >> Bazaar Explorer 1.0.0 is pending (next 24 hours) and the translations
> >> >> are looking great. It would be really nice to complete the French and
> >> >> Russians ones though before I release it, given there are only 9 and
> >> >> 22 phrases respectively not yet translated.
> >> >
> >> > Completed russian po file waiting review at
> >> > https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer/old/+imports
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > BTW: pot file is incomplete. Some strings from accessories dialog
> >> > missing in pot file.
> >> > Do you know how to refresh em?
> >>
> >> I will update POT.
> >>
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> > Alexander,
> >
> > I've been away from all Launchpad activities for a while because of ill
> > health.  I would now like to return to it, though at even a slower
> > pace... My problem is that I have forgotten some really elementary stuff
> > that most people know in their sleep.  Can you help me to recover:
> >
> > How do I run a translated explorer from the command line.  I think there
> > are simple command line instructions to specify any language that has
> > been translated and stored in a po file to become the language of the
> > program. For instance, if I want to have Russian text shown in the
> > Explorer, what commands would I need to specify? Similarly, I will want
> > to have Lithuanian commands shown by the Explorer, what commands do I
> > issue to achieve that?
> >
> > Thanks for your help - with apologies for asking the old question again.
> 
> I think (?) Algis is on Ubuntu, and in that case it should be a simple
> matter of typing in a terminal
> 
> LANG=lt_LT@UTF-8 bzr explorer
> 
> and similarly for any other language.   Normally it should run in
> whichever language you choose at the login screen, which implicitly
> sets $LANG.
> 
> I think this also works on Windows?
> 
> Maybe it should be added to the Explorer docs?
> There is a bug open asking for a way to change the language setting
> within the GUI (which might require respawning explorer.)
> 
> hth,
> 

Thanks for it, Martin.  What you say is quite correct, just that I have been 
"away" for a while and forgot about it...  That fatal condition, O-L-D  :)

Alexander suggested to that I submit an explanatory text for merging into bzr-
Explorer distribution and I promised to do it.  Will do, but I am slow...

Thanks for your patience, all of you,

OldAl.

-- 
Dr. A. Kabaila, PhD (Eng),
http://akabaila.pcug.org.au/StructuralAnalysis.pdf