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Fedora 28: Updates for Czech, Catalan, Greek, and Lithuanian Users

10 Comments / Fedora, Fedora Planet, glibc, internationalization / By Rafał Lużyński

Continuing my previous article I’d like to write about the more recent updates in date formats in glibc. These updates will be included in Fedora 28 final release. On March 29 a new version of glibc 2.27-8 has been released in f28 branch. Together with the unreleased version 2.27-7 it features the correct date formats in Czech, Catalan, Greek, and Lithuanian. …

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Fedora 28 and GNOME 3.28: New Features for Eastern Europe

6 Comments / Fedora, Fedora Planet, glib, GNOME, internationalization / By Rafał Lużyński

This time this is not fake, edited, patched, nor a custom build from COPR but the real screenshots of the unmodified downstream Fedora 28 planned to be released on May 1 this year. Here is how the default calendar widget in GNOME Shell looks in Greek, Polish, and Ukrainian: For those who can’t speak those languages: the major change …

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Some Bugs Are Really Funny

glib, GNOME, internationalization / By lingo-admin

People learn from errors. Therefore bugs should be made public, not hidden. GLib is a utility library originally developed for GNOME but also used by other projects. One of many functions it provides is g_date_set_parse(). It is really smart and simple. It accepts a string to parse but other than many date parsing functions it …

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Internationalization FAD, Pune 2017

Fedora, Fedora Planet, glibc, internationalization / By Rafał Lużyński

For the second time in a short period of time I participated in an important Fedora event. November 20–22, 2017, an Internationalization FAD was organized by a group of Fedora contributors from Red Hat Pune. FAD stands for Fedora Activity Day, it is a mini-conference. It differs from large conferences like Flock because it is …

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Linux Autumn 2017

1 Comment / Fedora Planet, internationalization, Linux Autumn / By Rafał Lużyński

Linux Autumn is an annual Polish conference dedicated to the free software and GNU/Linux. This year it was its 15th edition and this time it was held in Muflon Leisure Center in Ustroń. Shortly speaking: the conference was interesting but my participation was limited due to a virus¹ attack. Day #1: September 22 Not much …

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Linux Autumn: Memories of the Last Year

Linux Autumn / By lingo-admin

Linux Autumn 2017 is coming, it’s starting in 3 days only. While waiting let’s take a look at one presentation of the last year. Dmitriy Kostiuk talked about How GNU/Linux and FLOSS keeps history of graphical user interface alive. Why was this talk so special? We all have seen many talk slides, including those about …

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Flock 2017

Fedora, Fedora Planet, Flock / By Rafał Lużyński

Flock to Fedora, the annual Fedora users and contributors conference, was held this year from August 29 to September 1 in Hyannis, MA, a tourist resort located at the Atlantic Ocean coast. As I was privileged to participate in this event here is my report about it. Day #0 August 28, 2017 Usually this is …

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How Polish Plurals in MATE Went Broken

internationalization, localization, MATE / By lingo-admin

On March 13, 2017 the new version 1.18 of MATE Desktop was released. One of the last minute changes in the project was pulling the most recent translations from Transifex. Usually this is a good thing but apparently for the Polish language this turned out to be a little disaster because the plural rules have …

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glibc 2.26: New and Updated Locales

glibc, internationalization, localization / By lingo-admin

On August 2, 2017 glibc (The GNU C library) version 2.26 has been released. Among others, many issues related with supported locales have been addressed, most of them shortly before the release. Let’s see what has been changed. New locales Compared to the previous version, this release introduces the support of 6 new languages: Aguaruna, …

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