Translations not enabled for VLC snap

Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunnarhj at ubuntu.com
Wed Dec 21 19:20:30 UTC 2016


On 2016-12-21 19:51, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> When installing the VLC snap on Ubuntu, the session language is
> ignored, and the UI is always English.
>
> The issue has been reported via a few Ask Ubuntu questions,
> including <http://askubuntu.com/q/836483>. Rodney Dawes explained in
> an answer that bindtextdomain() needs to be modified, so there are
> reasons to fear that this hasn't been done properly for VLC.
>
> As a complete snap newbie I don't know where this kind of packaging
> issue should be reported, but I hope to call the right people's
> attention to it through this message.

I found <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1576282>, which is probably related.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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