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[ILUG] Ubuntu release:

[ILUG] Ubuntu release:

James McCarthy James.McCarthy at Sun.COM
Thu Apr 24 16:33:04 IST 2008


Hmmm, will have to do a dist-update tonight. Fun times.

Luke Ashe-Browne wrote:
> Frank Peelo wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Sean Mac Suibhne 
>> <seanmac2007 at eircom.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Does Ubuntu have an Irish language interface yet?
>>> I use Mandrivas Gaeilge interface. I dont know of any other distro that
>>> has an Irish language interface. Id be interested if there are any 
>>> others.
>>
>> Mandriva 2008.0 was funny. I asked for both Gaeilge and UK English to 
>> be installed, for a laugh. It got confused; I think the dialogue I 
>> got after installation, asking me whether I wanted to be in Mandriva 
>> Club or something, was in Russian (but I'm not sure because I don't 
>> know Russian. Might have been Irish in a Cyrillic font).
>>
>> After that, programs had some menu items in Irish and some in English.
>>
>> Frank
>>
> sounds more like the interface was written using an incompatible font
> code page or something, so probably was as gaeilge but in eastern
> European ISO or some weird font set :)
>
>
> Luke



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