Speaking of language support...

Misha Shnurapet zayzayats at yandex.ru
Mon Aug 3 16:53:05 UTC 2009


В Пнд, 03/08/2009 в 09:03 -0400, Tom Horsley пишет:
> When I install fedora, the final group of packages in the
> installation customization is language support. I never
> select any additional languages in there.
> 
> Despite that, as we see in another thread, firefox has
> a gazillion languages anyway, my font selection menus
> are cluttered with thousands of fonts supporting glyphs
> I can't recognize, my /usr/share/locale/ directory is
> filled with millions of entries, etc.
> 
> Which leads to the question: What the heck does the
> language support group in anaconda actually install?
> For a system with no additional languages installed
> on it, I sure seem to have an awful lot of different
> language related stuff on my system. (And fonts are
> the most irritating - I wish apps came with better
> font selection interfaces that could filter out
> things for languages I'm not looking for so I could
> maybe see the thing I am looking for in the smaller
> haystack left over :-).
> 

I like all the languages support in Fedora because I can see a website
in whatever language without having to google forums or to read manuals
and find suitable packages before that. :)

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Misha Shnurapet

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