Re: Hello and a a possible bug in i18n

[Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome org>]

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Mauricio López escribió:
> In a matter of fact I live in Cuba, and I think there is no locale for
> my country available yet. Here we have a FLOSS community and I'm
> thinking on make a group to create our own locale, based on our country
> settings. Is it possible that, if we make it, it can be available for
> every system? The point is that we want to make the best effort and make
> it worth.

Hi

> 
> Can anybody help us by giving us some resources and tips about how to do
> it and who to contact to make it widely available?

I'm not an expert in that field, but I know some people on this mailing
list would help you (Jordi Mallach or Danilo Segan are some of them).

As far as I know, what you need is to define the locale data for your
country and request glibc maintainers
(http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=glibc) and
belocs maintainers (The only contact I can give you for it is Martin
Pitt <martin pitt ubuntu com>, he would point you to the right place to
submit your information).

If you get your data in glibc and belocs, your locale should be
available for every single distro. Also, I suggest you to submit it to
the developers of your distro because that way you would get it deployed
 faster for testing purposes.

Cheers.

> 
> Regards
> 
> 2007/1/1, Carlos Perelló Marín < carlos gnome org
> <mailto:carlos gnome org>>:
> 
> 
> 
> Leonardo Fontenelle escribió:
>> The locale data is part of glibc. In their FAQ, they say "If the glibc
>> you are using comes from a complete operating system distribution, you
>> should report bugs to that distribution project first." However,
> there
>> is already a report in glibc's bugzilla similar to yours:
>> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2692 . You could
>> post a comment there, saying the same applies to Spain.
> 
> It's not the same thing. in Spain, time is handled in 24 hours so glibc
> is correct.
> 
> Mauricio, if you want to use different settings than the one defined in
> your country (Spain), you should set LC_TIME to a locale that works as
> you want it to work.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
>> Leonardo Fontenelle
> 
>> 2006/12/30, Mauricio López <mlopezqc gmail com
> <mailto:mlopezqc gmail com>>:
>>> I recently join to the list and I hope to make good contributions
> to the
>>> community. But I've had a doubt since a long time and is about
> the i18n in
>>> spanish. In Gnome, the clock applet only shows 12 hours format if the
>>> language supports it, and in the locales isn't specified that
> spanish
>>> language supports it. Actually in real life, a lot of people that
> speak
>>> spanish uses the 12 hour format and uses the same strings A.M and
> P.M.
>>>
>>> In my Linux box I hacked  the  file /usr/share/i18n/locales/es_ES
> (on an
>>> Ubuntu system), copied some things from
> /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US and
>>> after regenereted locales. Voila! I had 12 hour support. Of
> course I did it
>>> 'cause I have some technical knowledge and a bit of luck, but for
> non
>>> technical users it may be really annoying to use 24 hour format
> when they
>>> are used to 12 hour format.
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> 
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