[CS-FSLUG] Internationalization Question - USA/South America

[davidm at hisfeet.net]

I'm working with that for some of my co-workers here in MExico.  Ubuntu
and most of it's progeny have a simple way to make the major changes from
English to Spanish.

The best way would have been to install it in Spanish to begin with but be
sure that you choose the appropriate hardware for the computer that it
will be used on - especially the keyboard.  Most in Mexico use the latin
American keyboard, but there are a lot of USA.

Lot's of the changes can be made by just searching synaptic for
"spanish"and/or "es", and then deciding on Which packages you will need.

Gimp, Openoffice, and several other programs may need special attention to
get them to show up in Spanish. The keyboard is not likely to be much of a
problem either way, because there is an easy way <menu . control center.
keyboard. layouts> to change it.

I haven't got it all worked out. being uable to connect to internet here
in the part of Mexico where we live (Except by going to a cyber cafe)
makes it a little more complicated - especialy when some of the co-workers
I mention have no internet at their places.

Dave MC

> Hi all,
>
> My wife bought her son a laptop here, and I set it up with Kubuntu 11.10,
> before shipping it down to him in Peru.  It just occurred to me that I set
> it up more for using in the US than in Peru.   I setup the standard US
> English setup - and setup an alternate keyboard layout to use (US Intl
> w/dead keys).  He can switch between US English and Spanish as necessary.
> That part is great.
>
> My question, though, is this: if he uses the KDE Locale utility in System
> Settings to change his country to Peru, will this override the default
> keyboard layout?  After all, he will be using a US keyboard, but needs all
> the locale settings for Peru, such as numbers and money.  The laptop only
> has US English installed as a language.  I did not install
> Spanish/Castilian as a language - not sure exactly what effect that will
> have.
>
> Does anyone install two or more languages on their computer?
>
> Thanks,
> Don
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