[Tfug] Missing text on some programs.

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 02:00:16PM -0700, Claude Rubinson wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 01:44:26PM -0700, Tyler Nienhouse wrote:
>> I have no idea what the problem is, but on some programs, none of the  
>> programs text is there. Like in OpenOffice, none of the labels or menu  
>> items are there. And in Wine the programs have the same issue. This also  
>> happens with Amarok.
>>
>> I am currently using LinuxMint 6 (rc1) but this was also happening when  
>> I was using Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.
>
>So this is an Ubuntu-related problem?  (LinuxMint is based off of
>Ubuntu.)  Did you do anything funky in your installation?  Generally a
>systemic-wide problem like this would be related to your GUI toolkit
>but OpenOffice, Wine, and Amarok all use different toolkits, so I'm
>not sure offhand where the problem would lie.

Ah, LinuxMint is based on Ubuntu?  If that is the case, I would look into the
Ubuntu translation/language packages.  They have their own section in the APT
package database.  I'm pretty sure you can't have a working system without at
least one of them.

Since you didn't say anything about package issues, my guess would be that you
have your LANG environment variable set properly, en_US.UTF-8 I think, but you
have the wrong set of Ubuntu translation packages installed.  Presumably, if
you had both matching you'd have *some* text, though not necessarily in the
language you want.


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