Add Dari and Pashto locales for Afghanistan

[sayamindu]

The locale information for Dari and Pashto need to be added to the builds. I am pushing this for 8.2.1 since

a) Right now there is absolutely no locale information for the two languages in glibc, which means even very basic things like right to left rendering of the UI will not work in the two locales

b) This needs to be done during the build. This is because even if the deployment team on the field wants, it would be impossible for them to add the information manually in each XO since the localedef tool (which adds the information from the definition files into the glibc locale db) will fail on the XO due to mmap() not working on jffs2 (workaround is to manually copy a 75 file on each XO, which may cause instability)

I'm attaching the patch which needs to be applied to glibc.

Chris, do you think this is useful enough to be worth of the last minute distractions ? ;-)

[sayamindu]

Locale data, provided by Nasir from the Afghanistan deployment team.

[cjb]

Replying to sayamindu:

I'm attaching the patch which needs to be applied to glibc. Chris, do you think this is useful enough to be worth of the last minute distractions ? ;-)

I think so, yes. Are you able to do a scratch build in koji with this, test it, and put it into ~/public-rpms/staging?

Thanks.

[cjb]

.. oh, I guess you're going to have trouble testing it, for the reasons you mentioned above? But I do still need the RPM to feed to the build process.

[sayamindu]

I added the RPMs in my staging.

[sayamindu]

| Test Case |

1. Set /home/olpc/.i18n to LANG=fa_AF.UTF-8

2. Restart X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace)

3a. Verify the interface gets rendered in RTL (right to left mode)

3b. Verify that the Xorg messages in VT1 does not mention "Warning: Locale not supported by C library.."

4. Repeat tests with /home/olpc/.i18n set to LANG=ps_AF.UTF-8

[dsd]

Test case FAILS in staging-11:

fa_AF.UTF-8 works as expected, but ps_AF.UTF-8 is rendered LTR. There are no "Locale not supported" warnings that I can see, and the translations have been applied, however the interface is not RTL.

[sayamindu]

Replying to dsd:

Test case FAILS in staging-11: fa_AF.UTF-8 works as expected, but ps_AF.UTF-8 is rendered LTR. There are no "Locale not supported" warnings that I can see, and the translations have been applied, however the interface is not RTL.

Ugh. Thanks for testing. I'll check this out.

[sayamindu]

Just tested, this is not due to glibc. The GTK+ translations for Pashto are missing (which can be handled via language packs). (just copy the fa (Persian) translations of gtk20 into the ps directory, and you'll get RTL)

Since we have been working from the F-9 branch directly, I think we'll have to work from the staging area only (no Koji).

I'll submit the patch to Fedora, so that they can put this upstream whenever they can.

[cjl]

This was reported as fixed in the build 802 8.2.1 release notes on the wiki.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.1

Can this be closed yet?

[cjl]

Is there someone from OLPC Afghanistan that can confirm whether this has been fixed?