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[Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen <kjetil1001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/3/13 1:09 PM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>> As I remember, choice of installation language and installed language
>> is different!
>> So you can still use english to install a system in other language ...
>>
>> Kjetil
>
> There may be a problem with the installer using the geographical
> location to guess (wrongly) at the default language to use.  I have had
> several instances where the UI ended up having bits in the wrong
> language.  For example, I have one right now where parts are in Finnish
> while most is in English:
>
>         $ ls -lh
>         total 44K
>         drwxr-xr-x 2 lars lars 4,0K huhti 25 15:14 Desktop
>         drwxr-xr-x 2 lars lars 4,0K huhti 25 15:14 Documents
>         ...
>
> Same for some of the graphical apps and utilities.  It's something I
> have to look at more closely when I start testing again.
>
> Along those lines it irks me to no end that many web sites, despite
> offering content in my language, choose to override my browser's
> language settings and offer content in the wrong language(s).
>

There might be a problem with little testing of some language
variants? For example, I just saw a list of the 42 languages with
ubuntu versions, and their % completed translation. The norwegian
version was at the bottom of that list with only 80% translated. I
guess that is an indication of use, so also of testing ...

Kjetil

> Regards,
> /Lars
>
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