i18n in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS - great work! (& current status)

[(=?utf-8?q?=60=60-=5F-=C2=B4=C2=B4?=) -- Fernando]

Olá Timo.

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 16:17:26 Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'd just like to thank everyone who has fixed i18n problems and helped
> me to get some of the fixes to the archive et cetera to make Ubuntu
> 8.04 LTS the best localized release ever! The Firefox translations are
> now finally starting to get in, thanks to (very) hard work being done
> by the Mozilla team and others, and with those the most important i18n
> stuff will be done.
> 
<snip>
> 
> Out of the problematic points described in my previous mail a month
> ago, and new ones I've noticed since, only very few remain:
> 
> - Ubuntu's graphical installer is not perfect yet, but the most
> visible ones are now fixed and the rest are scheduled for 8.04.1.
> Thanks! The larger issue of language support downloading silently
> failing, instead of guiding the user during or after installation,
> when Internet connection is not available is an issue still
> unresolved, though: see
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-installer/2008-April/000182.html
> 
> - Hardware Testing (hwtest) has not seen a real package update since,
> but the current bzr trunk would have all the i18n issues solved.
> 
> - Examples directory link untranslated (old&hard bug #45489)
> 
> - network-manager-gnome upload pending with an i18n-fixed nm-editor
> 
> ...well, that was it!
> 
> -Timo

During our last Ubuntu Course we have found yet another.
In my point of view this is a showstopper for Hardy release:
After selecting Portuguese during Install, and seeing every other app working in Portuguese (even Mutt), when we opened up OpenOffice Writer, it was in English. Only after we ran Language Support on System->Administration, we could set it to Portuguese.
I'll have to look for our bug number and report back, but as you can see, this is a major showstopper, because any Portuguese Ubuntu User will be presented with and English GUI of OOo.
Is this a question of CD space?

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