Re: Gnome is off in Brazil

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Christian Rose <menthos@menthos.com> writes:

> Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:58:43PM -0200, Antonio Espeschit wrote:
> > > well, this is the solution I found. On Redhat login, I have selected
> > > "English" language when
> > > I use Gnome and "Portuguese" language when I use KDE. Because
> > > "portuguese language" on Gnome is
> > > not Portuguese from Brazil.
> > 
> > "Portuguese language" should never be Brazilian portuguese (pt_BR) but
> > just "pt". If KDE actually labels "Portuguese" the Brazilian Portuguese,
> > then that is imho a bug that should be reported.
> [...]
> > Or it may be that the version of gdm you are using doesn't list Brazilian
> > Portuguese (however recent versions do; at least a quick look on Gnome CVS
> > shows me that it is the case).
> 
> Yes. If the GDM (the login manager) in Red Hat Linux 7.2 doesn't let you
> choose "Brazilian Portuguese" as the language when logging in, then you
> should report this problem to Red Hat, as AFAIK the recent GDM versions
> and GDM in CVS allow you to select Brazilian Portuguese and don't have
> this problem.

This addition to /etc/gdm/locale.alias was added to gdm after
the version we shipped in 7.2; when we next get a version from
upstream, the addition will presumably be merged in.

It might not hurt to file an entry in bugzilla.redhat.com anyways
to make sure we remember to check this.

Regards,
                                        Owen