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[Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:06:23 +0100, Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I finally got around to rebooting, it has gone back to french as the  
> log-in
> screen. Stays English for the desktop, so I'm guessing  the en-GB strings
> are not in the log-in section
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Phillip Whiteside  
> <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > let me just put French into 2nd place and reboot
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Phillip Whiteside  
> > <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > >> The login screen is Ubuntu and I'm assured has been translated 100%
> > > into en_GB
> > >
> > > try it ;-)
> > >
> > > Phill.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Steve  
> > > <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:15:57 +0100, Phillip Whiteside  
> > > > <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  Hi Steve,
> > > > > as Mr "As the en_GB translation team I have no problem with an
> > > > > exception."
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd like to ask / point out a little 'funny' with the language packs.
> > > > >
> > > > > Long story, cut short, was trying to help with language packs last  
> > > > > night
> > > > > and
> > > > > as the only other language I know more than 2 words of is French (I  
> > > > > know
> > > > > about 10 words ;-) ) I put the French language pack onto my system  
> > > > > and
> > > > > popped it into 1st place, it dutifully went into French (So far, so
> > > > > good). I
> > > > > then moved English(GB) back to the top of the list, so that French  
> > > > > was
> > > > > in
> > > > > 2nd place and applied it, but my log in screen remained in French. It
> > > > > was
> > > > > only when I moved the French pack out of the active areas did I get  
> > > > > it
> > > > > back
> > > > > into English. My guess is that there is not an en-GB for the front
> > > > > screen
> > > > > and it is defaulting to the 'catch all' English, if there is a 2nd
> > > > > language
> > > > > pack there then it is correctly using that as the next in order of
> > > > > preference.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Phill.
> > > > >
> > > > >  The login screen is Ubuntu and I'm assured has been translated 100%
> > > > into en_GB
I’ve been playing with this and there does seem to be some sort of problem  
with this on Lubuntu. Going to try on Ubuntu. Haven’t seen any bug reports  
about it though.


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Steve (Yorvyk)
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