Yast fonts on Tumbleweed

[interele]

Can someone tell me why when I log in as root and start Yast it looks fine
but when I log in as a user then start Yast and enter the root password Yast
has some text in a squiggly ( Arabic perhaps ) font.

This is Tumbleweed 20180306
with Plasma

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[ab]

You mean the text for things like software management, hardware, etc. is
actually not readable at all? I've never noticed that, but I would look
at your locale settings as your non-root user. Also, how specifically
(show commands with the code (#) tag button in the web UI) are you
becoming root? I have never noticed Yast magically prompt for a root
password, so I assume you are using sudo. If so, try 'sudo -i' first, or
SSH in as root, or use 'su -', and see if those have the same issue.
Otherwise, locale stuff should show from the following command (executed
both as non-root and as 'root' to see differences.

env | grep LC

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[hcvv]

I have never noticed Yast magically prompt for a root
password,

Well, when you start YaST from the menu of a desktop session (GUI, e.g. KDE or Gnome), it does open a window to ask for the root password to begin with. That has been so for ages. I do not know if you would ask this magic, bit it is simply programmed as such.

[keellambert]

I've been seeing the same since update last Monday. Some icons show Arabic titles other show Arabic comments. Not identified a cause yet.

This only occurs in yast-gui.

[dth2]

I see that too. Strange as the Arabic entries are either the category heading or the category explanation - but not both. I did check my language settings in yast and these just show GB English.

[wolfi323]

I see that too. Strange as the Arabic entries are either the category heading or the category explanation - but not both. I did check my language settings in yast and these just show GB English.

Well, the corresponding translations (package "desktop-translations") are broken it seems.

en_GB/update-desktopfiles-yast.po contains e.g.:

#: /usr/share/applications/YaST2/users.desktop

msgctxt "GenericName(users.desktop)"

msgid "Add, Edit, Delete Users or User Groups"

msgstr "إضافة مستخدمين أو مجموعات مسخدمين أو تحرير بياناتهم أو حذفها"

Somebody should file a bug report.

[keellambert]

Bug 1084657 - yast showing some Arabic category heading or the category explanation - but not both, although English selected

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084657

[keellambert]

hi,

en_GB/update-desktopfiles-yast.po contains e.g.:

#: /usr/share/applications/YaST2/users.desktop
msgctxt "GenericName(users.desktop)"
msgid "Add, Edit, Delete Users or User Groups"
msgstr "إضافة مستخدمين أو مجموعات مسخدمين أو تحرير بياناتهم أو حذفها"

Please clarify,
- cannot find any file with the extension .po
- cannot find any file with contents which defines: msgctxt, msgid, msgstr

Tumbleweed x86_64 is being referred too?

cheers

[wolfi323]

Please clarify,
- cannot find any file with the extension .po
- cannot find any file with contents which defines: msgctxt, msgid, msgstr

That's in the source package/tarball.

xxx.po is the translation "source code", it is "compiled" into a .mo file when the package is built and the binary package (desktop-translations.rpm) contains those binary .mo files.

The .po files (in plaintext) are only contained in the desktop-translations.src.rpm (or you can get them on OBS).

Tumbleweed x86_64 is being referred too?

Sure, that was taken from the current Tumbleweed package (noarch though, not x86_64... ).

[dth2]

This issue is fixed in the 09032018 snapshot.