Questions about language settings, translations and other matters relating to two or more countries.
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Unity .desktop Actions internationalization and localization?
How can we translate Desktop Action Names? Is it supported by quickly, launchpad?
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How to write a “@” with a French Canadian Keyboard
I try to do a "@" but each times a press on Alt+2 or Ctrl+Alt+2 to get it, the Top menu of the app/windows show off (File/Edit/View/Tool...)
If a try with a English Canadian's Layout or a English ...
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How to install Shan language on Ubuntu 12.04
I'm from Myanmar. At our place we use Shan Language which is related to Thai.
How do I set-up my Ubuntu 12.04 so that I can read and write in my language?
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Cannot type “ć” on Hungarian layout
I need help with keyboard layouts. My layout is Hungarian and on Windows I could type ć using AltGr-9 + c which is a c with an acute. However AltGr-9 + Space gives me a single quote (') and AltGr-9 + ...
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The unicode fonts layout provided by Ubuntu vs. the official font layout
While choosing Nepali language. I see there are slight differences between the layout provided by Ubuntu's Keyboard Layout vs. the standard font layout provided for Nepali language.
I am also not ...
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How to change language of KDE software installed in Ubuntu
I would like to know how to change the language of the KDE software (Gwen and Okular) that I installed in my Ubuntu. My Ubuntu is in French, but the KDE software is in English. When I "Switch the ...
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How many languages are available in the Ubuntu distributions?
Do you know if there are statistics on how many languages Ubuntu supports (completely translated / partially translated)?
I've tried the following command:
apt-cache search language-pack | grep ...
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Is there a tool to quickly create custom keyboard layouts for international keyboard, greek and unicode math?
Is there a tool to quickly create custom keyboard layouts?
For example to achieve this: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/86559/1871
Producing Unicode characters in secondary layers, but based on US ...
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How do I change keyboards from the command line?
How I change keyboard layouts from the command-line? For example, I want to switch from English to Hebrew. I'm able to do it from lightdm with the little icon in the corner of my screen.
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How do I create a translations team?
I'm interested in contributing translations to Ubuntu. How do I create a translations team so I can contribute?
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International Keyboard -layouts over X — how to set them up?
I have asked a related question in different sites such as here in German and a related thread here, a different case in the latter though. The # dpkg-reconfigure console-setup is firing WARNING: ...
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How to generate debian package translation information?
As a follow-up to this question, how can I generate i18n translation information while creating package? I am using dpkg --build command to build binary package. By default, no
"Translation" ...
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No usable Polish keyboard layout
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with the XFCE desktop, all packages up to date.
I wanted to set up a keyboard layout for the Polish language (Polish uses the Roman alphabet, with a few additional characters ...
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Ubuntu Localization
We are a language translation company and a strong believer in Ubuntu as we use it internally for almost everything.
Some of our clients have asked us for software recommendations (OS in particular) ...
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How to turn IBus input method on after installing ibus-m17n for Bengali-avro?
I have installed ibus-m17n from Software Center. Selected and added Bengali-avro in Input method under IBus Preferences. IBus was added to the Startup Applications in power cog menu. In the Language ...
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What's the naming convention for ngettext short name?
gettext.gettext is imported as _:
from gettext import gettext as _
It's some naming convention, right? What's the equivalent for gettext.ngettext? __?
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Universal cyrillictransliteration-based keyboard layout for Ubuntu?
I'm looking for universal *cyrillic* keyboard with layout based on transliteration, for Ubuntu.
By transliteration-based I mean that the mapping will be most adapted to the normal qwerty keyboard, ...
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How to use gettext to make QML files translatable
I'd like to write a QtQuick app based on Python (PySide) and QML.
I know Qt apps have got their own translation technology, but I would like to stick to gettext for this one. I'd like to know if it's ...
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How to install the translations for trac
I have installed trac on my server running Ubuntu 12.04. The problem is that the users cannot change the language in their preferences. Instead, the following message is displayed:
Translations ...
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How do I apply an Indian language system-wide?
I want to add Indian languages system wide.I see on English and Chinese options .I also updated font cache. The image says it all.
First is the gnome tweak tool and second the font viewer.
How do i ...
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How do I add Bengali support?
How to type Bengali using Ubuntu 12.04. I had installed IBus but unable to find the list of languages from drop down list when I try to add Bengali through input method.
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Google Sinhalese installation failed
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 3 days ago an have never used it before. I wanted to install an IME for Sinhala so I tried installing Google Sinhalese input via wine following the instructions from the ...
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Is there support for Tamil?
Back in 2007, there was a distribution Tabuntu that enabled use of Tamil on top of Ubuntu.
How can I similarly use Tamil in a more up-to-date distro such as Ubuntu?
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How do I turn on phonetic typing for Tamil?
Is phonetic typing for Tamil available in Ubuntu 12.04?
How can I install it?
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Bad Bengali font?
I just installed Precise in my native language (Bengali). I'd post an image, but apparently new users can't post images on this forum.
The Bengali font is oddly small and difficult to read.
I don't ...
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Anyone know how to write bengali or hindi?
I have tried installing "banglaword" using wine which did not worked at all.
I have tied using layouts but i feel it is too hard to make it work.
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What are the contents of a language pack?
I tried to install language-pack-fr in my Ubundu machine. It worked - but I am not clear what are things that get installed as part of the language pack.
In general , the language pack contains only ...
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warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale
I want to switch to French locale. So I tried the below command:
myUbundu@myUbundu-desktop:~$ export LC_ALL=fr_FR
But I am getting the warning
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change ...
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How to set up language input?
I'm trying to set up Kubuntu 11.10 so I can type Japanese. I've searched online but have had little luck. My installation is fresh so it'd be great if someone could walk me through it and tell me how ...
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How can I have my Ubuntu completely in Japanese (plus the standard typing)?
hez
So my question is: I want my Ubuntu to be completely Japanese. When I installed it, I have chosen Japanese as the default language.. (it is in a virtual box, btw). So now everything is Japanese, ...
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Install Japanese in Kubuntu
I study Japanese so it's helpful to be able to type it on my computer.
I have iBus installed and under Local in Settings, I installed Japanese, though it only gave me the option for translations. I ...
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Akira not replaced to 明
If i changed keyboard layout to "Chineese" and start gedit,
"aki-ra" or "akira" its not replaced to 明.
Any suggestions?
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How can I install a complete Arabic font?
I have installed Arabic language support using the language tool, but I am still unable to get this page to render correctly:
http://www.iamcal.com/understanding-bidirectional-text/
Which fonts do I ...
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How to enable Arabic support in GNOME terminal?
I'm trying to write Arabic in the terminal app but it does not recognize right-to-left text and does not bind the Arabic letters together as it should.
I tried this solution ...
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How to set up XFCE4 XKB plugin to remember settings over reboots?
Following this answer I've installed xfce - xfce4-xkb-plugin to indicate and switch keyboard layouts in XUbuntu. But it resets all the settings (languages I use and a switch layouts hotkey) every time ...
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How to set up keyboard layout switching and indication in Xubuntu?
I use 3 different languages (English, Czech and Russian) every day. I'd prefer to switch (preferably globally, I don't like per-window) between them with Left+Alt+Shift.
I'd also like to see the ...
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How to enter Ge'ez alphabet (Tigrinyan language)
Ge'ez is an East-African alphabet.
Using the powerful Eclipse IDE editor, it is possible to switch "Input Type" to Tigrinya (EZ+). Typing the 5 letters selam will then result in the 3 Ge'ez letters: ...
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Ibus does not show option in input method except Chinese
I have just started using Ubuntu 11.04 (any Linux OS for that matter). I am trying to get Hindi phonetic typing option to work. so far I have not been able to figure it out.
Can you tell me step by ...
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How to disable alternative international keyboard
During installation I selected the alternative international keyboard. The problem with this keyboard that a double-quote character doesn't get typed until a space is pressed. Same for tilde (~) and ...
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Turn off international characters when I use Alt-Shift-[Character]
Whenever I press (Right Alt)-Shift and a key I get an international character for that key, for example, Alt-Shift-S gives Š and Alt-Shift-Y gives Û
How do I turn this off?
I normally use this ...
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Localization of kturtle
I'm trying to localize kturtle in bengali... But I found the way very difficult to start it. Please suggest some easy way(IDE-which is used to debug or edit the source code). Where I can find the ...
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Toggling language with Alt+Shift doesn't work
On a recent install of 10.10 i can't toggle with Alt+Shift between USA/Isr, even though i can toggle by pressing the language icon on the tool bar.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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What is the meaning and format of LANGUAGE?
I'm used to environment variables such as LANG and LC_*, but I recently noticed a LANGUAGE variable on my Ubuntu desktop. It's value was pt_BR:pt:en, and I'm wondering exactly what is meaning is. ...
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How do I get started with Translations?
My friend and i would like to translate Ubuntu. where should we start? where to find translation tools?
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How can I download or install all of the dictionaries?
I find the dictionaries in /usr/share/dict/ quite useful. How do I download (or install) all of them, for every language, without having to install every language pack?
Also, if the answer involves ...
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Applying languages / locale selectively: is it possible?
I am a Dutch user and prefer the my local date & time format, system wide. I have no trouble speaking or understanding English and find it very useful to have the rest of my system configured in ...
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Patches and translations
When changing a string of text as a part of a patch, how should the translation in the .po files be handled? For example, a recent paper cut I've worked on involved changing the string "Reboot Anyway" ...
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Remove languages in translations?
I use spell-checker for 4 languages, en, de, fr, and lb.
If I enable Spellchecking and writing aids for en, de or fr in System -> Administration -> Language Support there will be multiple ...
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How to write an internationalized manual using gettext?
I need to write a manual to the software I made. If it possible to use gettext when writing a manual, or other documents?
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Translating .deb package information
How can I translate the contents of debian/control in debian packages so that the Information will be localised when the package is shown in the Software-Centre?
for packages in Ubuntu
for ...
