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[Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/3/13 1:25 PM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> see inline below.
> 
> 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

Right, but as I set up the systems, I thought I was ensuring that the UI
and GUI for Raring should both be only in English.  Some settings are
misapplied somewhere.

Regards,
/Lars