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Re: Howto set LANG for KDE



On Wednesdayen den 25 April 2001 17:33, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:


> So my question is: How do I set LANG globally for KDE.

My experience is that if I set lang, debian stops working.
I have tried LANG=sv_SE and LANG=sv, and even setting the 
individual LC_XXX environment variables. It gives various 
interesting results, but all gives a non-working system. Even 
'ls' aborts with an error message.

Maybe something is misconfigured on my system, but I really can't 
figure out what. I have libc6-2.2.4 and locales-2.2.4. I also 
have not been able to figure out how to successfully set locale 
to any other language than the default with LANG=POSIX.

On the other hand, kde works good in setting its language to 
Swedish, and that I did by changing the language setting within 
kde. All menus and texts are in Swedish, where they have been 
translated. I don't know what setting LANG would improve on the 
situation, except for making none-kde applications crash.

In any case, the following shows one interesting effect of 
changing 'LANG':

[/u/home/pgd (5)]$ export LANG=sv_SE
[/u/home/pgd (5)]$ ls
????                  ???????                   ?0?0?0???????
????????????          ??????????                00000?????
???                   ???????                   ????????????
???????????           ??????                    ????????
????????????????      ????????????              ?????????????
?????                 ???????                   ??????????
??????                ?????????????             ?????
????????              ?????????????             ???????
??????                ????                      ??????????

-- Karolina



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